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ALL meanings of wild card

wild card
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  • noun wild card card game: substitute card 1
  • noun wild card computer code: substitute symbol 1
  • noun wild card unpredictable person or thing 1
  • countable noun wild card If you refer to someone or something as a wild card in a particular situation, you mean that they cause uncertainty because you do not know how they will behave. 0
  • countable noun wild card If a sports player is given a wild card for a particular competition, they are allowed to play in it, although they have not qualified for it in the usual way. You can also use wild card to refer to a player who enters a competition in this way. 0
  • countable noun wild card A wildcard is a symbol such as * or ? which is used in some computing commands or searches in order to represent any character or range of characters. 0
  • noun wild card a player or team that has not qualified for a competition but is allowed to take part, at the organizers' discretion, after all the regular places have been taken 0
  • noun wild card (as modifier) 0
  • noun wild card an unpredictable element in a situation 0
  • noun wild card a symbol that can represent any character or group of characters, as in a filename 0
  • modifier wild card of or relating to a player or team that has not qualified for a competition but is allowed to take part, at the organizers' discretion, after all the regular places have been taken 0
  • noun wild card a card that has been declared wild 0
  • noun wild card any of the teams, other than those that finish in first and sometimes second place, that qualify for a championship playoff 0
  • noun wild card an element that cannot be predicted or controlled 0
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