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tiger - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tiger'

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* tigre (obsolete) * tyger (dated)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Panthera tigris , a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
  • # A male tiger.
  • A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
    • (Dickens)
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The Beginnings
    • The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger , thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
  • A leopard.
  • * 1907 , Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld , Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
    • Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
  • (US|slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
  • * 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
    • Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
  • (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As for heinous tiger , Tamora.
  • (US|colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
    • three cheers and a tiger
  • A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * Panthera tigris

    Derived terms

    (top4) * Asian Tiger (business) * Bali tiger * Bengal tiger * Sumatran tiger * Siberian tiger (mid4) * Tasmanian tiger * blind tiger * have a tiger by the tail * paper tiger * tiger beetle (mid4) * tiger cat * tiger lily * tiger moth * tiger mother * tiger shark (mid4) * tiger snake * tigereye * tigerish * tigerlike (bottom)

    Related terms

    * tigress * tigrine * Tigger

    Hypernyms

    * felid

    Anagrams

    * South African English ----

    Similar to 'tiger'

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