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TIGERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Example:
the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
Synonyms:
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; LTTE; Tamil Tigers; Tigers; World Tamil Association; World Tamil Movement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)
Context examples:
I believe I am correct Colonel, in saying that your bag of tigers still remains unrivalled?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers, replied the Lion, and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me in two as easily as I could kill Toto.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
If the elephants and the tigers and the bears had ever tried to fight me, I should have run myself—I'm such a coward; but just as soon as they hear me roar they all try to get away from me, and of course I let them go.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
