wild card

See also: wildcard and wild-card

English

Alternative forms

• wildcard, wild-card

Noun

wild card (plural wild cards)

1. (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) Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”)
4. (phonetics, phonology) Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”)

Translations

special card

• Bulgarian: жокер m (žoker)
• Catalan: comodí (ca), jòquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赖子 (zh) (làizi)

• Finnish: jokeri (fi)
• French: joker (fr) m
• German: Joker (de) m
• Hungarian: dzsóker (hu)
• Portuguese: curinga (pt) m, jóquer (pt) m
• Romanian: joker (ro) m
• Russian: джо́кер (ru) m (džóker), ди́кая ка́рта f (díkaja kárta)
• Spanish: comodín (es)
• Swedish: joker (sv)

competitor or team

• Finnish: villi kortti
• Japanese: ワイルドカード (wairudo kādo)
• Korean: 와일드카드 (waildeukadeu)
• Romanian: wildcard n
• Turkish: turnuva kartı

a substitute character — see wildcard

See also

• one-eyed jack
• suicide king