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US
/ˈtaɪɡɝz/
]
[ UK /tˈaɪɡəz/ ]
[ UK /tˈaɪɡəz/ ]
NOUN
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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
How To Use Tigers In A Sentence
- A troop of Hanuman langur a watering hole used by tigers in India's Bandhavgarh National Park.
- Yet the tigers of the Chitwan Valley can be elusive in the absence of propitiation by Tharu priests.
- I don't rightly know how these panthers and cheetahs and tigers came to inhabit the park in the first place.
- Experienced, disciplined teams can frustrate the Tigers, who can fold under pressure.
- Tigers are alluring animals and stories about them always have a magnetic appeal.
- If the Tigers indeed wanted to regroup, which is what Sri Lanka fears the most, they would then invest any amount of money to have their remaining battle hardened cadres smuggled out of these camps. Kottu
- The lions and tigers stayed in their wagons. Times, Sunday Times
- She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
- Chip Caray infuriated a lot of baseball fans this October on TBS, sparking jokes as he described seemingly every hit as "fisted," and completely botching a call in the 10th inning of the AL Central one-game playoff, when he screamed, "Line drive, base hit!" on a screamer by Nick Punto that Tigers left fielder Ryan Raburn caught before throwing home to nail Alexi Casilla at the plate and keep the game going. NY Daily News
- The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.