Usually means: Unpredictable factor affecting outcomes significantly.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word wild card:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild card: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wild card: Merriam-Webster
  3. wild card: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wild-card, wild card: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wild card: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wild-Card, Wild-card, wild-card: Wordnik
  7. wild card: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wild-card, wild card: Wiktionary
  9. wild card: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wild card: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wild-card, wild card: Dictionary.com
  12. wild card: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Wild Card (EP), Wild Card (ReVamp album), Wild Card (TV series), Wild Card (The Rippingtons album), Wild Card (card games), Wild Card (film), Wild Card (lottery), Wild Card, Wild card (Foresight research), Wild card (card games), Wild card (cards), Wild card (foresight), Wild card (poker), Wild card (sports), Wild card: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. wild card: Rhymezone
  15. wild card: FreeDictionary.org
  16. wild card: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. wild card: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild card: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. wild card: CCI Computer
  3. Wild-card, wild card: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wild card: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wild Card: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wild Card: Dan's Poker
  2. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wild card: Sports Definitions

(Note: See wild_cards as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wild card)

noun:  (card games) A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
noun:  (sports) A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
noun:  (computing) Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”) [(computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.]
noun:  (phonetics, phonology) Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”) [(computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.]

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