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nouna cruelly rapacious person
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nounan exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
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"wildcat work stoppage"adjectivewithout official authorization
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nounany small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
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"drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation" "a wildcat mine" "wildcat drilling" "wildcat wells"adjective(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
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"wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks" "wildcat stock speculation" "a wildcat airline" "wildcat life insurance schemes"adjectiveoutside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
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cat beast wolf painter savage brute panther attacker cougar assailant unauthorized puma unofficial aggressor lynx unsound unauthorised exploratory ocelot jaguarundi oiler catamount assaulter wildcat well oil well true cat felis bengalensis felis chaus felis concolor felis manul felis ocreata felis pardalis felis serval felis silvestris felis tigrina felis wiedi felis yagouaroundi jaguarondi jaguarundi cat jungle cat kaffir cat leopard cat manul margay margay cat mountain lion caffer cat catamountain european wildcat eyra panther cat sand cat serval tiger cat pallas's cat explorative