wild card

wild card

See also: wildcard and wild-card

English

Alternative forms

• wildcard
• wild-card

Noun

wild card (plural wild cards)

1. In card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
2. (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.

3. (computing) a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing

Translations

special card

Finnish: jokeri (fi) French: joker (fr) m German: Joker (de) m

Portuguese: curinga (pt) m Russian: джо́кер (ru) m (džóker), ди́кая ка́рта f (díkaja kárta) Spanish: comodín (es)

competitor or team

Finnish: villi kortti

a substitute character

Chinese: Mandarin: 通配符 (tōngpèifú) Japanese: ワイルドカード (wairudokādo)

Polish: wieloznacznik Russian: си́мвол-джо́кер m (símvol-džóker)

See also

• one-eyed jack
• suicide king