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wild card
noun- an unpredictable factor; an unknown US
From card playing jargon where it represents a card of no predetermined value. - A Western diplomat in New Delhi called the thousands of Pakistani-trained militants operating in Indian Kashmir ‘a major wild card that is outside the control of either nation’. — The Washington Post, 3 January 2002
- a dangerously unpredictable person UK
- Only a proper wild card would carry a gun around for no good reason other than the carrying of it. — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 111, 2001
- an enemy fighter plane US
- — American Speech, p. 125, Summer 1986: “The language of naval fighter pilots”
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