wildcat
wahyld kat
- n an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
- n a cruelly rapacious person
- n any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
- s 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 - s without official authorization
wildcat work stoppage - s (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
- Significant figures bubbled up from oil-rich Texas to show how the independent oilmen are being frozen out of the oil industry, with the result that the number of new "wildcat".
- The nations of the Continent have long belittled Britain for its inability to curb wildcat strikes.
- Along them wanders Philip Marlowe, a cynical, perfectly hard-boiled private investigator hired by an old millionaire to find the husband of his beautiful, bitchy wildcat daughter.