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wildcatting

wildcatting is the present participle and gerund 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 wildcatting

What is wildcatting the present participle and gerund of?
Wildcatting is the present participle and gerund of wildcat.

Words near wildcatting in the dictionary

  1. wildcat wells
  2. wildcats
  3. wildcatted
  4. wildcatter
  5. wildcatters
  6. wildcatting
  7. wildcraft
  8. wildcrafted
  9. wildcrafter
  10. wildcrafters
  11. wildcrafting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wildcatting (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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