Associations to the word «Tiger»

TIGER, noun. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

TIGER, noun. A male tiger.

TIGER, noun. A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

TIGER, noun. (South Africa) (dated but still used) A leopard.

TIGER, noun. (US) (slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

TIGER, noun. (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

TIGER, noun. (US) (colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

TIGER, noun. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

TIGER, proper noun. A town in Georgia

TIGER, proper noun. An unincorporated community in Washington

TIGER, noun. (soccer) someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

TIGER BEETLE, noun. (zoology) Any active, carnivorous beetle (species) of the subfamily Cicindelinae.

TIGER BEETLES, noun. Plural of tiger beetle

TIGER BENCH, noun. A type of torture method predominantly used in China in which prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

TIGER BREAD, noun. A bread made with sesame oil and with a pattern baked into the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking.

TIGER CAT, noun. Leopardus tigrinus, the oncilla.

TIGER CUB, noun. A young tiger.

TIGER CUBS, noun. Plural of tiger cub

TIGER ECONOMIES, noun. Plural of tiger economy

TIGER ECONOMY, noun. A place enjoying very fast economic growth.

TIGER GRASS, noun. The grass Saccharum spontaneum.

TIGER GRASS, noun. The grass Thysanolaena maxima.

TIGER GRASS, noun. The flowering plant Centella asiatica.

TIGER IN ONE'S TANK, noun. (informal) enthusiasm, energy, fervor

TIGER KIDNAP, verb. (British) (criminal) (slang) To abduct someone, or to hold someone hostage, in order to persuade someone else to assist in a crime.

TIGER KIDNAP, noun. Such an abduction or hostage-taking.

TIGER KIDNAPPED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of tiger kidnap

TIGER KIDNAPPING, verb. Present participle of tiger kidnap

TIGER KIDNAPS, verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tiger kidnap

TIGER KIDNAPS, noun. Plural of tiger kidnap

TIGER LILIES, noun. Plural of tiger lily

TIGER LILY, noun. A bulbous flowering plant, Lilium lancifolium, with a large spectacular flower and a edible bulb.

TIGER MOM, noun. A mother who drives her child/children very hard to succeed in school and/or in extracurricular studies like learning a musical instrument.

TIGER MOMS, noun. Plural of tiger mom

TIGER MOTH, noun. (zoology) A stout-bodied moth (species) of the family Arctiidae

TIGER MOTHER, noun. A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care. [from 20th c.]

TIGER MOTHER, noun. A mother who drives her child/children very hard to succeed in school and/or in extracurricular studies like learning a musical instrument. [from 21st c.]

TIGER MOTHERS, noun. Plural of tiger mother

TIGER MOTHS, noun. Plural of tiger moth

TIGER MUM, noun. A mother who drives her child/children very hard to succeed in school and/or in extracurricular studies like learning a musical instrument.

TIGER MUMS, noun. Plural of tiger mum

TIGER NUT, noun. (especially in plural) The edible tuber of chufa (Cyperus aesculentus)

TIGER PRAWN, noun. A large marine crustacean, Penaeus monodon, widely reared for food

TIGER PRAWNS, noun. Plural of tiger prawn

TIGER SALAMANDER, noun. A long slender salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, having black skin and yellow markings.

TIGER SHARK, noun. A large shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, common in the mid-Pacific, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.

TIGER SHARKS, noun. Plural of tiger shark

TIGER SNAKE, noun. Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.

TIGER TEAM, noun. (idiomatic) A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.

TIGER TEAM, noun. (idiomatic) An engineering or other group assembled to tackle especially difficult or critical problems, often outside the normal chain of command.

TIGER TEAMS, noun. Plural of tiger team

TIGER WOLF, noun. Spotted hyena

TIGER WOLVES, noun. Plural of tiger wolf

TIGER, noun. A fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me".

TIGER, noun. Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered.