• (America) enPR: tī'gər, IPA: /ˈtaɪɡɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈtaɪɡə/

1. ll mul, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto IX, stanza 14, page 311 ↗:

     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.

   1. A male tiger.
2. (heraldiccharge) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
3. (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings

     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.

4. (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
   • 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:

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

5. (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
6. (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
   • 1588-93, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

     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.

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

   three cheers and a tiger

8. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
9. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
10. A tiger beetle.
11. A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
12. A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
    • 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press ISBN 9780415199254, page 709

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

    • 2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO ISBN 9780313357725, page 21

      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.

    • 2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781107041158, page 287

      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.

• Panthera tigris

• Tigger
• tigrine

• French: tigre, tigresse
• German: Tiger, Tigerin, Tigermännchen (male), Tigerweibchen (female)
• Italian: tigre
• Portuguese: tigre
• Russian: тигр
• Spanish: tigre

tiger (plural tigers)

1. A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.

1. The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
2. A town in Georgia.
3. An unincorporated community in Washington.

tiger (plural tigers)

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