wildcat : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wildcat	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for wildcat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wildcat adj 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" without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage" Synonym(s): unauthorized, unauthorised, 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" n an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field Synonym(s): wildcat well, wildcat a cruelly rapacious person Synonym(s): beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wild-cat \Wild"-cat`\, a. 1. 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. 2. (Railroad) Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Wildcat, WV Zip code(s): 26376