wild-and-woolly

[ wahyld-n-wool-ee ]
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adjective
  1. unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.

Origin of wild-and-woolly

1
First recorded in 1885–90; perhaps originally referring to range-bred cattle

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