wild card
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]wild card (plural wild cards)
- (card games) A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
- (sports) A 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.
- (computing) Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”)
- (phonetics, phonology) Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”)
Translations
[edit]special card
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competitor or team
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a substitute character — see wildcard