Definition of "wildcatting" [wildcatting]

• Present participle of wildcat. (verb)

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• "The Plan: Before becoming one of America's most iconic oilmen, T. Boone Pickens spent his youth wildcatting, which is the practice of drilling semi-random holes in the ground in search of oil."
• "But the Goldman Sachs accusations, whatever they lead to, only point up what we've all known for quite some time: that certain cultures, hothouse though they may be, breed a kind of wildcatting that seems now to be endemic to our human nature."
• "Indeed, on July 1, when The Wall Street Journal reported on the SEC's new proactive "wildcatting" program of looking out for scams without hard proof of wrongdoing, it explained that the program was created "after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer exposed a number of abusive anti-investor practices in the securities markets, upstaging the SEC.""