noun🔗ShareIn card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card."In this card game, the joker is a wildcard, so you can use it as any card you need to complete your hand. "gameChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion."Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card."sportgameChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing"When searching for all the files that start with "report" but have different endings, you can use the asterisk () wildcard in the search box, like "report". "computingtechnologycharacterwordtechnicalinternetlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified."If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum."computingtechnologycharactersystemtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(also written wild card) An uncontrolled or unpredictable element."Her sudden outburst was a wildcard that no one expected during the meeting. "charactereventtendencybusinesscomputingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(also written wild card) An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency."The teacher kept one question a secret; that question was the wildcard for the final exam, to be used if the other questions proved too easy. "possibilityelementbusinesscomputinggametechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
