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Wild West

Proper noun

Meaning

(historical) The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly.

(by extension) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. George Mikes

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do. Uwe Boll

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Caroline Lawrence

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world. Vince McMahon

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun... Jim Morrison

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