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English
Image:Bobcatonwires.jpg|thumb|a bobcat

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-wildcat.ogg|Audio (US)

Pronunciation
w:IPA|IPA: /�waɪld�kæt/
w:SAMPA|SAMP: /"waIld%k{t/

Noun
en-noun|sg=wildcat

1. wild relative of the domestic house cat, member of the genus Felis
2. one of several large undomesticated species of cat, such as the bobcat

#:*Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats, nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards. (CNN, 2003.04.24)

1. figuratively a person who acts like a wildcat, often sexually

#*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. (Firearms) a caliber of ammunition derived by amending another type of cartridge and not made by commercial manufacturers.

Scientific names
Felis silvestris

trans-top|bobcat
Albanian: macja e egër
Basque: basakatu
Belarusian: ко�ка л��на�
Breton: kazh gouez
Bulgarian: дива ко�ка (diva kotka)
Catalan: gat salvatge
Chinese: ��, ��
Chumash (Inezeño): ʼanaqpuw
Croatian: divlja ma�ka
Czech: ko�ka divoká
Danish: vildkat
Dutch: wilde kat f, wilde staking de
Esperanto: arbara/sova�a kato
Estonian: metskass
Faroese: villkøttur
Finnish: villikotikissa
French: chat sauvage m
Frisian: wylde kat
Friulian: gjat salvadi
Galician: gato bravo, gato montés
German: Wildkatze f
Greek: αγ�ι�γα�ο� (agriógatos) m, γά�α (gáta)
Hungarian: vadmacska
Icelandic: villiköttur, skógarköttur
Irish: cat fiáin eorpach
Italian: gatto selvatico m
Japanese: 山�
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Korean: �쾡�
Ladin: giat salvare
Latvian: karstgalvis?
Lithuanian: miškin� kat�
Lower Sorbian: źiwa kocka
Macedonian: дива ма�ка (diva ma�ka)
Maltese: qattus salvaġġ
Norwegian: villkatt, skogkatt
Occitan: cat salvatge
Polish: żbik
Portuguese: gatobravo
Romanian: pisic� s�lbatic�
Romansh: giat selvadi
Romany: divlio-murtano m, divlio-mutsa f
Russian: ко�ка ле�на� (koška lesnaja)
Sami: vildabussá, meahccebussá
Sardinian: gattu areste, gattu aresti, battu areste
Scottish: cat fiadhaich
Serbian: див�а ма�ка (divlja ma�ka)
Slovak: ma�ka divá
Slovenian: divja ma�ka
Spanish: gato montés m, gato silvestre m
Swedish: vildkatt c
Turkish: yaban kedisi
Ukrainian: к�� л��овий (kit lisovij)
Upper Sorbian: dźiwja kó�ka
Welsh: cath wyllt
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Related terms
bobcat
cat
Scottish wild cat
wild cat

Adjective
en-adj|-

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

Intransitive verb
rfc-trverb|Intransitive verb
en-verb|wildcat|t|ing

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

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