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
WILD CARD
Meaning of WILD CARD in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012