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wildcatted

wildcatted is the simple past and past participle of wildcat.

Meaning of wildcat

Verb

wildcat (third-person singular simple present wildcats, present participle wildcatting, simple past and past participle wildcatted)

  1. (oil industry) 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.

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Questions about wildcatted

What is wildcatted the simple past and past participle of?
Wildcatted is the simple past and past participle of wildcat.

Words near wildcatted in the dictionary

  1. wildcat strike
  2. wildcat strikes
  3. wildcat well
  4. wildcat wells
  5. wildcats
  6. wildcatted
  7. wildcatter
  8. wildcatters
  9. wildcatting
  10. wildcraft
  11. wildcrafted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wildcatted (page history and authors); wildcat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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