1. A separatist militant organization that was based in northern Sri Lanka (from 1970s until 2009 when it defeated by the Sri Lankan army)
   "the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"; "the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war";
   - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement

1. Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
   "The Bengal tiger moved silently through the bamboo";
   - Panthera tigris
    
2. A fierce or audacious person
   "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"

Type of: actor, big cat, cat, doer, foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization, worker

Part of: genus Panthera, Panthera

Encyclopedia: Tigers, Not Daughters