tiger

A large carnivorous feline mammal (Panthera tigris) of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes.

Any of various similar wild felines, such as the jaguar, mountain lion, or lynx.

A person regarded as aggressive, audacious, or fierce.

In poker, a hand which is seven high and deuce low, without a pair, sequence, or flush. When played, it beats a straight and loses to a flush. Sometimes called a little dog.

In Central and South America the jaguar, Felis onca, whoso black and yellow coat suggests the Asiatic tiger.

A feline quadruped, Felis tigris or Tigris regalis, one of the two largest living cats (the other being the lion), of the family Felidæ.

The thylacine dasyure, or tiger-wolf: so called from the stripes. See thylacine (with cut).

A person of a fierce, bloodthirsty disposition.

A dissolute swaggering dandy; a ruffling blade; a swaggerer; a hector; a bully; a mohawk.