Wildcat — Special Features

(a wildcat logo)

1.

wildcat (noun)  =

(a)  a quick-tempered person (= a person who becomes angry easily)

(b)  a dangerous person

(c)  a woman of aggressive nature

(d)  a careless investor or speculator

(e)  an oil well dug in an area unknown to have oil

(f)  a factory workers’ strike not authorised or accepted by the labour unions

a wildcat

2.

wildcat (adjective)  =

(a)  risky or bad (investment, business, etc.)

(b)  doing business without or outside the standard norms (without moral or social ethics or principles)

3.

to wildcat (verb)  =

(a)  to dig for oil and natural gas

(b)  (of factory workers or company employees) to go on strike without the approval of the labour unions

wildcat strike = the act of employees of a factory or company going on a sudden strike, a walk out from work, without informing the officials and without getting  approval from their labour unions

(turning the wildcat)

4.

a wildcatter  =  a person who digs for oil in an area not known to have oil

5.

as mean as a wild-cat

Harold Hamm, an American wildcatter

6.

to turn the wildcat  =  to somersault (to jump in a complete revolution with the knees bent and feet coming over the head)

7.

looks like a wildcat out of bush [said of someone untidy, cruel and dangerous]

8.

to whip one’s weight in wildcats  =  to be strong and in good condition