half tiger

British

noun

slang a five-rand coin

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the image of a creature half tiger half lion, about four feet high and a foot and a half round.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Actually there she is, behind him; Chrysanthème almost on all fours, hidden between the paws of a great granite beast, half tiger, half dog, against which our fragile tent is leaning.

From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre

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