Meaning of tiger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
2. The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
3. Someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
4. Acronym of Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
5. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
6. A town in Georgia.
7. jaguar
8. A perversely bad, cruel, or wicked person:archfiend, beast, devil, fiend, ghoul, monster, ogre, vampire.
9. A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
10. An unincorporated community in Washington.
11. angry or fierce person
12. a large wild animal of the cat family, with a striped coat. tier نَمِر тигър tigre tygr; tygřice der/die Tiger(in) tiger τίγρης, τίγρηtigre; tigresa tiiger ببر tiikeri tigre; tigresseנמר बाघ tigar tigris harimau tígrisdÿr tigre 虎 호랑이 tigras tīģeris harimau tijger tigertygrystigre tigru тигр tiger tigar tiger, tigrinna เสือ kaplan 老虎 тигр چيتا con hổ 虎
13. Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.
14. A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
15. A popular given name for a pet.
16. an energic or expert male lover
17. A large carnivorous feline mammal (Panthera tigris) of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes.
    (Panthera tigris)
18. A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
19. toilet, WC
20. A person regarded as aggressive, audacious, or fierce.
21. A jaguar.
    obsolete
22. (Animals) a large feline mammal, Panthera tigris, of forests in most of Asia, having a tawny yellow coat with black stripes
    Panthera tigris,
23. Certain insects:
24. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
25. (Animals) (not in technical use) any of various other animals, such as the jaguar, leopard, and thylacine
    not in technical use
26. A tiger beetle.
27. a dynamic, forceful, or cruel person
28. Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
29. (Economics) a. a country, esp in E Asia, that is achieving rapid economic growth
30. A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
31. (Historical Terms) archaic a servant in livery, esp a page or groom
    archaic
32. A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
33. (Animals) short for tiger moth
34. A leopard.
    South-Africa
35. A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
36. A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
    obsolete
37. A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
    US, slang
38. A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
    figuratively
39. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

Equivalents

Examples

“For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.”

“Coordinate term: tigress”

“Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite.”

“The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.”

“Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.”

“In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.”

“Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic Tigers, as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.”

“Once colonial or settler rule ended, such enterprises either lost the crutches of state support or became “white elephants,” draining resources from the wider economy. This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.”

“We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon”

“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.”

“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.”

“As for that heinous tiger, Tamora, No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, No mournful bell shall ring her burial; But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.”

“He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'”

“. . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.”

“One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase "I-wanter-know!" always produces a laugh.”

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