wild
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Is wild a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.Examples: "The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency."
2. (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
3. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.Antonyms: tame
4. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.Examples: "Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!"
5. (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
adv (English)
1. (of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.Examples: "Let's record it wild."
noun (English)
1. (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.Examples: "After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild."
2. (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.Examples: "1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.Examples: "...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding". "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."..."; "Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us."
2. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.Examples: "They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep."; "Kinsey posted a clip of the incident alongside a caption that reads: "Damn the ER in Tulsa be wildin'.""; "The Ringer's Culture/NBA writer Wosney Lambre said it best: "I think it's a bad look for the players to be wilding on the fans like this. Fair or not, the players are held to a higher standard of decorum than the loser fans. It is what it is.""
Definition source: Wiktionary