What does wild cat mean?
Wild cat means A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:.
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/ˈwaɪldˌkæt/ · noun
A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:.
2002 September 26, The Young and the Restless Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.
[…] the Tank being a small arena theatre located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful.
2003 June 15, CNN 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.
You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.
His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting.
Use wild cat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wild cat means A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:.
Common synonyms include desert cat, bobcat, feral cat, brute.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2002 September 26, The Young and the Restless Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
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