wildcatter

wild·cat·ter

noun \-ˌka-tər\

Definition of WILDCATTER

1

: one that drills wells in the hope of finding oil in territory not known to be an oil field

2

: one that promotes unsafe and unreliable enterprises; especially : one that sells stocks in such enterprises

3

: one that designs, builds, or fires wildcat cartridges and firearms

4

: a worker who goes out on a wildcat strike

First Known Use of WILDCATTER

1883

Other Mining and Drilling Terms

ore, trepan, wildcat

Rhymes with WILDCATTER

back matter, backscatter, bespatter, dark matter, flat-hatter, front matter, gray matter, no matter, standpatter, the matter, white matter