wildcatter

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who drills for oil speculatively. US
  2. A worker who participates in a wildcat strike.
  3. A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them.
    — Roy Weatherby began his career in the firearms industry as a “wildcatter”, developing his revolutionary ideas about rifle cartridge performance and design.

词形变化

wildcatters plural

词源

Etymology tree
English wildcat
English -er
English wildcatter
From wildcat + -er.
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