wild card

See also: wildcard and wild-card

English

Alternative forms

wildcard, wild-card

Noun

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”)

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
Russian: джо́кер (ru) m (džóker), ди́кая ка́рта f (díkaja kárta)
Spanish: comodín (es)
Swedish: joker (sv)

competitor or team

Finnish: villi kortti
Turkish: turnuva kartı

a substitute character — see wildcard

See also

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