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wild card definition

wild card

  1. Card Games a card that has been declared wild
  2. ☆ Sports any of the teams, other than those that finish in first and sometimes second place, that qualify for a championship playoff
  3. Slang an element that cannot be predicted or controlled

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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