What is "wild oats"

Oat \Oat\ ([=o]t), n.; pl. Oats ([=o]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS.

1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ( Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. Animated oats or Animal oats (Bot.), A grass ( Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. Oat fowl (Zo["o]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, Danthonia sericea, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in parts of the United States. To feel one's oats,

   1. to be conceited or self-important. [Slang]

   2. to feel lively and energetic.

      To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
      --Thackeray.

      Wild oats (Bot.), a grass ( Avena fatua) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats.

n. any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers [syn: bellwort, merry bells]

Wild Oats is an American television sitcom that aired in 1994 on Fox.

Wild Oats or wild oats may refer to:

• Avena, a genus of grasses that includes the cereal oat
• Chasmanthium latifolium or wild oats, a grass
• Uvularia sessilifolia or wild oats, a bellwort
• Wild Oats (TV series), a 1994 sitcom
• Wild Oats Markets, a natural foods and farmers' market chain of stores in North America
• Wild Oats XI, a maxi yacht
• Wild Oats (film), an upcoming film starring Demi Moore and Jessica Lange
• Wild Oats (play), a 1791 comic play by John O'Keeffe, later rewritten and set in the American West by James McLure

Wild Oats is a play by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1791.

Wild Oats is an upcoming American comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Gary Kanew and Claudia Myers. The film stars Demi Moore, Jessica Lange, Shirley MacLaine, Billy Connolly and Alan Arkin. The film is scheduled to be released on Lifetime on August 22, 2016.