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Definition of Tigers

1. Noun. 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. "The Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"

Definition of Tigers

1. Noun. (plural of tiger) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tigers

1. tiger [n] - See also: tiger

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tigers

Literary usage of Tigers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1906)
"THE Limerick Tigers were born on a certain St. Patrick's Day in a cyclone ... The Tigers gloried in the fact that, while the oldest and most popular of the ..."

2. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"INLAND SCENERY: JUNGLE —Tigers. ... Bungalows— Monkeys—Deer—Hogs—Tigers —Yearly Victims—Concealment by the Chinese Planters—Small Number of Tigers—Few ..."

3. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"The Tigers!" They are a military company, a portion of the "sure defence of the State. ... The " Boston Tigers" have recently sallied out from their jungle, ..."

4. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"The Tigers!" They are a military company, a portion of the " sure defence of the State ... The " Boston Tigers" have recently sallied out from their jungle, ..."

5. A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1849)
"The Tigers !" They are a military company, a portion of the " sure defence of the ... The " Boston Tigers" have recently sallied out from their jungle, ..."

6. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism," by William James (1909)
"Altho such things as the white paper before (\^ey our eyes can be known intuitively, most of the things we know, the tigers now in India, for example, ..."

7. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism," by William James (1909)
"Altho such things as the white paper before our eyes can be known intuitively, most of the things we know, the tigers now in India, for example, ..."

8. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"ticulars relative to tigers, I put the following queries in the " Field," and the editor ... Amongst sixty odd tigers, at whose deaths I have been present, ..."

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