Noun

(en noun)

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

# A male tiger.

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

(Dickens)

* 1843 , '', 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.

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.

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

* 2010 , Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood

Don't Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.

(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

* Shakespeare

As for heinous tiger , Tamora.

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

three cheers and a tiger

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)

A fictional Japanese monster () from a series of science-fiction films.

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Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.