Wildcat

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A wildcat or wild cat is a species of cat, although the term is also used to describe the bobcat. Outside the animal world, the term may refer to several concepts in various fields:

Contents 1 Sport 2 People 3 Entertainment 4 Left-Wing Culture 5 Technology and Industry

[edit] Sport

• Rugby League teams Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Connecticut Wildcats are members of the Super League and AMNRL respectively.
• Wildcat is a popular nickname of college sports teams, including Central Washington University, University of Arizona, University of Kentucky, Villanova University, Northwestern University, Wheelock College, Davidson College, Kansas State University, University of New Hampshire, Weber State University and Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
• Wildcats (BCAFL), the Southern All-star team in the British Collegiate American Football League
• The Perth Wildcats is an Australian basketball team competing in the National Basketball League (Australia)
• The wildcats are also popular nickname of high school mascots including Mesquite High School (Gilbert, Arizona).
• Wildcat was a type of chassis used in the CART World Series during the 1980's.

[edit] People

• Wild Cat (Seminole) is a Seminole chief who was active in the Second Seminole War
• Wildcat was an early stage name used by exotic dancer, pornographic actress, and mainstream actress Cara Fawn before she adopted the later stage name Cheyenne Silver
• "Wildcat" Chris Harris, a professional wrestler working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as half of the tag team America's Most Wanted.
• A wildcatter is a person who drills oil wells in an area that is not known to be an oil field.

[edit] Entertainment

• Wildcats (film) is a 1986 movie starring Goldie Hawn as the head coach of an urban American high school football team.
• WildCat is a roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio
• "Wildcat", a song on the WWE Anthology album
• Wildcat (comics) is a DC comics comic book character.
• Wildcats (comics) is a Wildstorm comic book team.
• The Wildcats, the squadron the player flies with in the computer game Strike Commander.

[edit] Left-Wing Culture

• Wildcat (communist) is a communist organization in the USA.
• Wildcat was the name of a small close-to-Bordigist ultraleftist organisation that existed in England in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Wildcat is an anarchist cartoon strip by Donald Rooum.
• A wildcat strike is a strike action of workers that is not authorized by union leadership.
• Wildcat (theatre company), a left-wing Scottish theatre troupe

[edit] Technology and Industry

• Wildcat (chess) is a chess engine.
• The F4F Wildcat is an American fighter plane from World War II.
• Wildcat is a graphics card series produced by 3Dlabs.
• Wildcat wells are oil wells drilled in an unexplored area.
• Wildcat! BBS is a bulletin board system (BBS) software package.
• A wildcat cartridge is a specialty cartridge not produced by commercial ammunition manufacturers.