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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"
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Ceylon, Democratic Socialist Republic Of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
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, ..."