Wildcat

Noun

 * 1) A species of cat, Felis silvestris.
 * 2) Any undomesticated species of cat.
 * Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats, nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards. (CNN, 2003.04.24)
 * 1)  a person who acts like a wildcat, often sexually
 * 2) * 2002, The Young and the Restless (TV, September 26)
 * Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
 * 1)  a caliber of ammunition derived by amending another type of cartridge and not made by commercial manufacturers.
 * 2) In the labor movement, anything done outside of the control of bosses or trade unions.
 * 3)  an offensive formation characterized by a direct snap to a running back and an unbalanced offensive line

Synonyms

 * Felis silvestris

Adjective

 * 1) relating to oil exploration in an area where no oil has been found before
 * 2) unauthorized by the proper authorities
 * Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon... (CNN, 2003.06.15)

Derived terms

 * wildcat strike

Verb

 * 1) to drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before
 * You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.

Derived terms

 * wildcatter

Adjectives for Wildcat
docile; cunning; vicious; sly; dangerous.

Verbs for Wildcat
encounter—; skin—;   trap—;  —carries away; —claws; —depredates; —devours; —glares; —growls; —preys on; —roams; — slinks; —springs; —stalks.

Thesaurus
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

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * Albanian: macja e egër
 * Basque: basakatu
 * Belarusian: кошка лясная
 * Breton: kazh gouez
 * Bulgarian: дива котка (diva kotka)
 * Catalan: gat salvatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 野貓, 野猫
 * Chumash: ʼanaqpuw
 * Croatian: divlja mačka
 * Czech: kočka divoká
 * Danish: vildkat
 * Dutch: wilde kat, wilde staking de
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: metskass
 * Faroese: villkøttur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: gjat salvadi
 * Galician: gato bravo, gato montés
 * German:
 * Greek: αγριόγατος (agriógatos), γάτα (gáta)
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: villiköttur, skógarköttur
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cat fiáin eorpach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: giat salvare


 * Latvian: karstgalvis?
 * Lithuanian: miškinė katė
 * Lower Sorbian: źiwa kocka
 * Macedonian: дива мачка (diva mačka)
 * Maltese: qattus salvaġġ
 * Maricopa:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: villkatt, skogkatt
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan: cat salvatge
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: gatobravo
 * Romani: divlio-murtano, divlio-mutsa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: giat selvadi
 * Russian: кошка лесная (koška lesnaja)
 * Sami: vildabussá, meahccebussá
 * Sardinian: gattu areste, gattu aresti, battu areste
 * Scottish: cat fiadhaich
 * Serbian: дивља мачка (divlja mačka)
 * Slovak: mačka divá
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: gato montés, gato silvestre
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кіт лісовий (kit lisovij)
 * Upper Sorbian: dźiwja kóčka
 * Volapük: natädakat,  natädahikat,  natädajikat
 * Welsh: cath wyllt
 * West Frisian: wylde kat

Related terms

 * bobcat
 * cat
 * Scottish wild cat
 * wild cat
 * African wildcat
 * desert cat