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half tiger

British  

noun

  1. slang a five-rand coin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Yet his rule has a circus quality--half high-wire act, half tiger riding.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard."

From Time Magazine Archive

Half man and half tiger that he was, the Black Minorca, as self- appointed leader, reached Bryce first.

From The Valley of the Giants by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

The generous Henri IV., the noble Sully, and Bayard the knight sans peur et sans reproche, were these half tiger and half monkey?

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

They were things that might have been half wolf, p. 14 half tiger; each of them three hundred pounds of incredible ferocity with eyes blazing like yellow fire in their white-fanged tiger-wolf faces.

From Space Prison by Godwin, Tom

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