Dictionary Entry
wildcat
wildcat is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
- 2adjective
Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
- 3noun
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
- 4noun
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
- 5noun
a cruelly rapacious person
- 6adjective
(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
"drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation"
"a wildcat mine"
- 7adjective
without official authorization
"an unauthorized strike"
"wildcat work stoppage"
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- 8adjective
outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
"wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"
"wildcat stock speculation"
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