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n. A young tiger.
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n. a young tiger
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Usage examples of "tiger cub".
We will now suppose that there has recently been some little coolness between this tiger cub and this tigress.
If someone had a young tiger cub in a cage and then mistreated it until it got savage and bloodthirsty and then turned it loose to prey on the rest of the world.
He went about the deck like a tiger cub, glaring his hatred openly at Wolf Larsen and Johansen.
To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.
By analogy, no more than a tiger cub tied mewling in the forest at night, whilst concealed men with electric lights and heavy weapons ready ring the spot about, waiting in silence for those great green glowing eyes to come, that bear a full hand's breadth of separating night between!