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half tiger

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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

Towering above him stood this great, strange creature, barefooted, ragged, half tiger, half sphinx.

From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter

Were John Calvin and Fénélon half tiger and half monkey?

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

For there is a wide range of appreciation in that mercurial nature which, according to Voltaire, is half monkey and half tiger.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

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