noun
- A fierce or audacious person.
- usage: "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"
- synonyms: tiger
- Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered.
- synonyms: tiger, Panthera tigris
- A terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel.
- usage: "the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"
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