[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. railroad running without control; running along the line
      without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wildcat
     adj 1: 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"
     2: without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike";
        "wildcat work stoppage" syn: unauthorized, unauthorised
     3: 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 1: an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an
          oil field syn: wildcat well
     2: a cruelly rapacious person syn: beast, wolf, savage,
        brute
     3: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat
        and living in the wild
     also: wildcatting, wildcatted
see also:
unauthorized unauthorised wildcat well beast wolf savage 
brute wildcatting wildcatted 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

66 moby thesaurus words for "wildcat":
   jezebel, leo, siberian tiger, adventurous, aleatory, beldam,
   bitch-kitty, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chancy, cheetah,
   cougar, dicey, disobedient, full of risk, fury, grimalkin, hag,
   hazardous, headstrong, heady, hellcat, hellhag, insubordinate,
   irresponsible, jaguar, lawless, leopard, licentious, lion, lynx,
   mountain lion, mutinous, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, rampant,
   reinless, riskful, risky, self-willed, she-devil, she-wolf, simba,
   siren, speculative, termagant, tiger, tigress, unaccountable,
   unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined,
   ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, venturesome, venturous, virago,
   vixen, willful, witch

[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

wildcat, wv
  zip codes: 26376

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