WILD-CAT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

2.
a.

Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.


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