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• 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.

• wildcat well
• beast
• wolf
• savage
• brute
• unauthorized
• unauthorised

News & Articles

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• Snowmass Wildcat Fire Protection District ‘cooperative’ in EPA investigation
  The Snowmass Wildcat Fire Protection District is spending about $7,000 to $8,000 on soil sampling and an outside consultant to test the environmental impact of the floor drains under the department’s truck-washing area.
  June 17, 2013 - The Aspen Times
• Sports shorts: Incoming Wildcat Gordon a finalist for USA U19 team
  Incoming Arizona Wildcats forward Aaron Gordon was named one of 16 finalists for USA Basketball's U19 World Championship team Sunday, though future teammates Brandon Ashley and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson were not.
  June 17, 2013 - Arizona Daily Star
• New York Jets lean heavily on Wildcat in minicamp
  The Wildcat lives on with the New York Jets. New quarterbacks coach David Lee, who introduced the subpackage to the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, has been instrumental in bringing it back to Florham Park.
  June 13, 2013 - NFL.com

Quotes

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• Adrian Peterson in ESPN
  I like [the Wildcat],Peterson said. "You've got guys out there: Percy Harvin, Bernard Berrian, Chester, me and the quarterbacks. When you get the majority of those guys on the field you really can create some things."
• Bob Stoops in Los Angeles Times
  It's not like one is a scrambling, wildcat kind of guy and you've got a whole different ballgame for him,Stoops said.
• Bill Belichick in Boston Globe
  We'll have to be ready for all of those,Belichick said. "We want to be ready to defend [the Wildcat]. But at the same time, we don't want to commit so much time to it that we don't do a good job on the other things they do as well....