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TIGER CUB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tiger cub mean?
• TIGER CUB (noun)
The noun TIGER CUB has 1 sense:
1. a young tiger
Familiarity information: TIGER CUB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young tiger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tiger cub" is a kind of...):
cub; young carnivore (the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion)
Panthera tigris; tiger (large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered)
Context examples
He went about the deck like a tiger cub, glaring his hatred openly at Wolf Larsen and Johansen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old Persian saying, ‘There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.’ There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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