tigers Meaning, Definition & Usage

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
   LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; Tamil Tigers; World Tamil Movement.
   
   • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
2. noun a fierce or audacious person
   tiger.
   
   • he's a tiger on the tennis court
   • it aroused the tiger in me
3. noun large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
   tiger; Panthera tigris.
   

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