wild card

See also: wildcard and wild-card

English

Alternative forms

Noun

wild card (plural wild cards)

In 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) 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)

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