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the Wild West

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

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Wild West (plural Wild Wests)

1. (figuratively, by extension) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
   • 1996, Michael L. Johnson, New Westers, The West in Contemporary American Culture, page 10:

     There were earlier Wild Wests too, of course, before the one that gave up gunplay for legal finagling.

   • 2010, David M. Emmons, Beyond the American Pale, The Irish in the West, 1845–1910, page 296:

     But apart from the Irish appreciation of creative criminality and outlawry's close association with wild wests, simply read again the title of Patrick Ford's newspaper: the Irish World and American Industrial Liberator.

   • 2012, Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, page 229:

     In the wild west of the Internet, states have been reluctant to work together for this common purpose. One example of closer state coordination came in 2011 at the London Conference on Cyberspace […]

   • 2018 November 16, Taylor Lorenz, “How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts”, in The Atlantic‎, retrieved 29 May 2023:

     In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.

参考

• Old West