Synonyms:
wildcat_well, wildcat
Meaning: an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
Synonyms:
beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
Meaning: a cruelly rapacious person
Synonyms:
wildcat
Meaning: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
Usage examples
Possibly racing down some rugged slope in the Rockies with two grizzlies and a wildcat in earnest pursuit.
Your squaws are the mothers of deer; but if a bear, or a wildcat, or a serpent were born among you, ye would flee.
It may be that when Mr. Renshaw, having dodged the bears and eluded the wildcat, returns to his post, he will decide not to continue the paper on the lines at present mapped out.
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