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wild-card

wild-card is the alternative form of wild card.

Meaning of wild card

Noun

wild card (plural wild cards)

  1. A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
  2. A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
    • Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card.

Forms of wild-card

pluralwild-cards

Questions about wild-card

What is wild-card the alternative form of?
Wild-card is the alternative form of wild card.

Words near wild-card in the dictionary

  1. wild yams
  2. wild-animal
  3. wild-animals
  4. wild-ass
  5. wild-asses
  6. wild-card
  7. wild-cards
  8. wild-cat
  9. wild-cats
  10. wild-caught
  11. wild-eyed

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