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NounPlural: wildcats |
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wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | ||
true cat, cat feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats | ||
felis, genus felis type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats | ||
sand cat a desert wildcat | ||
catamountain, european wildcat, felis silvestris bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | ||
cougar, felis concolor, mountain lion, puma, catamount, panther, painter large American feline resembling a lion | ||
felis pardalis, ocelot, panther cat nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat | ||
eyra, felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | ||
caffer cat, felis ocreata, kaffir cat widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor | ||
felis chaus, jungle cat small Asiatic wildcat | ||
felis serval, serval slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat | ||
felis bengalensis, leopard cat small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia | ||
felis tigrina, tiger cat a cat having a striped coat | ||
felis wiedi, margay, margay cat small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil | ||
felis manul, manul, pallas's cat small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia | ||
wildcat - a cruelly rapacious person | ||
beast, wolf, savage, brute | ||
assailant, assaulter, attacker, aggressor someone who attacks | ||
wildcat - an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | ||
wildcat well | ||
oil well, oiler a well that yields or has yielded oil | ||
Adjectivewildcat, wildcatter, wildcattest |
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wildcat - (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"; "wildcat drilling"; "wildcat wells" | ||
explorative, exploratory serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats" | ||
wildcat - outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes" | ||
wildcat - without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage" | ||
unauthorized, unauthorised |