Definition
Having no laws or law enforcement.
Unsettled or unresolved.
Vulnerable or unprotected.
In Context
- "It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came."
- "One hundred thirty-eight sellers and buyers were jailed. Even efforts like that were to no avail in a wide-open town where rackets flourished […]"
- "The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open."
- "He left himself wide open to criticism."