wildcat
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Synonyms for wildcat
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
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a cruelly rapacious person
any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
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- Felis
- genus Felis
- cat
- true cat
- sand cat
- catamountain
- European wildcat
- Felis silvestris
- cougar
- Felis concolor
- mountain lion
- puma
- catamount
- panther
- painter
- Felis pardalis
- ocelot
- panther cat
- eyra
- Felis yagouaroundi
- jaguarondi
- jaguarundi
- jaguarundi cat
- caffer cat
- Felis ocreata
- kaffir cat
- Felis chaus
- jungle cat
- Felis serval
- serval
- Felis bengalensis
- leopard cat
- Felis tigrina
- tiger cat
- Felis wiedi
- margay
- margay cat
- Felis manul
- manul
- Pallas's cat
- lynx
outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
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without official authorization
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(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
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