WILD CARD


Meaning of WILD CARD in English

noun Etymology: ~, playing card with arbitrarily determined value Date: 1971 an unknown or unpredictable factor, one picked to fill a leftover playoff or tournament berth after regularly qualifying competitors have all been determined, a symbol (as ? or *) used in a keyword database search to represent the presence of zero, one, or more than one unspecified characters

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