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wildcat

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Related topics: Animals
wild·cat1 /ˈwaɪldkæt/ noun [countableC]  
HBAa type of cat that looks similar to a pet cat and lives in mountains, forests etc 〔生活在山区、森林等中的〕野猫
Examples from the Corpus
wildcat• Tiny though she was compared with her assailant, she fought like a wildcat.• I left in the middle of the big wildcat of 1976, and I suppose it was a cowardly thing to do.• A third of wildcat populations had declined in recent years, and only 8 percent were increasing.• Then I changed my mind, and I began to hate the wildcats.• Interbreeding with feral cats is probably the biggest threat to the wildcat.• In a way, the wildcats were beginning to work.
Related topics: Gas, coal, oil
wildcat2 verb (wildcatted, wildcatting) [intransitiveI]  
American EnglishAmETPG to look for oil in a place where nobody has found any yet 勘探[钻探]石油
—wildcatter noun [countableC]
From Longman Business Dictionary
wildcatwild·cat1 /ˈwaɪldkæt/ adjectiveadj [only before a noun] American EnglishAmE
a wildcat oil well or discovery of oil is one that is in a place where no one has found oil before
wildcatwildcat2 verb [intransitiveI] American EnglishAmE
to look for oil in a place where no one has found it yet
—wildcatter noun [countableC]
Oklahoma wildcatters struck oil in the late 1920s.
wild·cat1 nounwildcat2 verb
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