tiger n.
1. with ref. to individuals.
(a) an overdressed, showy man.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 74: I met the Corinthian, the other day [...] amongst all the Tigers of note, the Lions, and other Great Creatures belonging to the Menageries of Fashion. | |
 | Trumpeter General (Hobart, Tas.) 19 Aug. 3/6: In Englaii a solitary individual attempts to introduce a new of carriage, or shape of hat, is caricatured, and becomes what is called, in terms of slang, a tiger. | |
| Pendennis I 185: A man may have a very good coat of arms, and be a tiger, my boy [...] that man is a tiger, mark my word – a low man. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Mr Barnes of N.Y. 294: This English tiger will not suspect his bride. |
(b) (also tiger-boy, a smartly dressed manservant, esp. a boy who accompanies his master in his coach; (Aus.) a groom (often black).
| Pelham II 70: I sent my cab-boy (vulgo Tiger) to inquire of the groom, whether the horse was to be sold. | |
| Cockney Adventures 3 Feb. 108: The gentleman in the cab said to his tiger, ‘Samuel, take my card to that girl.’. | |
| ‘The Man About Town’ Nobby Songster 22: I first started cab and tiger, cos I was up in cash, / And at all the flare-cribs in the town, I used to cut a dash. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 4 Mar. 1/4: A fashionably dressed young man, who stepped out of a fashionable cabriolet, leaving his grey and his tiger behind. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Peregrine Pultuney I 65: The tiger-boys, whom you see in blue and red livery, on the box of a lady’s carriage in London. | |
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 1 Sept. n.p.: Should think Marm P. had better look further for a tiger to protect her, than such a swell head as yourself! | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 29 Nov. 3/3: Mr Cooper’s tiger then sprung into the box, and roared a corroborative. | |
| Lewis Arundel 76: I have a sort of tiger [...] who is a first-rate liar – most excellent useful boy. | |
| Quite Alone I 27: With shining livery buttons, [...] and a hat bound with silver cord, this domestic was surely the tightest tiger that ever was seen. | |
| ‘I’m a Young Man Most Highly Respectable’ 🎵 I want smart footmen, a tiger – but zounds, I scarcely can keep all my wants within bounds. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Nov. 8/3: One of [...] our surgeons has a ‘buttons’ and two waiting rooms, and his standing instructions to his ‘tiger’ are that patients [...] whose appearance indicates that they are liable expectorate on the ‘Brussels’ are to be shown into the outer waiting room. | |
| Bristol Magpie 12 Oct. 8/2: the light element is supplied by [...] Jim Horsely, an unscrupulous groom ; Bob, a ‘tiger’ boy [...] and others. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Mar. 9/2: Since then [...] he has gone through many ups and downs, and ought now – by all accounts – to be rolling about in a spicy dog-cart, with a tiger in buttons behind. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 23 Jan. 7/2: A phaeton whirled along [...] driven with white reins by a dashing belle, behind whom sat [...] the inseparable ‘tiger’. | |
| Fifty Years (2nd edn) I 57: He had to sing out to the little boy who did tiger behind, to know if he was still there. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Sept. 27/1: Some years since, when a dog-cart was a novelty in a certain Australian metropolis, a well-known ‘Cousin-Jack’ brewer started one of these vehicles, with a poor relation as his ‘tiger.’. | |
| Shorty McCabe 159: [of a chauffeur] I sees a goggle-capped tiger throw open the door of one of them plate-glass benzine broughams. | |
| (ref. to 1900s) 25 Years in Six Prisons 213: He [a Basuto boy] was a very smart and neat and clean-looking little chap, of about eighteen or nineteen, just the type of a gentleman’s groom [...] in a short time he was installed as ‘tiger’ to a lady at a country house. | |
| Sporting Times 152: Belle Bilton drove onto the stage in a coster’s barrow, with a ‘tiger’ behind, drawn by the Brothers Griffiths as donkeys. |
(c) an omnibus conductor.
| Comic Almanack May 137: ‘Vere are you going, miss, / Vith that ere married man?’ sang out / The tiger of the ’bus. |
(d) a parasite, a sponger, a rake.
| Young Tom Hall (1926) 100: A pert footman [...] now entered in obedience to Mr Snuffertray’s orders to go and see ‘these tigers didn’t steal anything’. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| Sl. Dict. |
(e) a ferocious woman.
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
(f) (Aus.) a menial outdoor worker.
| Adventures in Aus. 130: We left […] for the bush, respectively mounted on Admiral, Abelard, and Polka, with a young ‘tiger’ carrying our saddle bags and ‘swag’ [AND]. | |
| Aborigines of Aus. 37: Nearly all the squatters, at some time or other adopt black boys, keeping them as ‘tigers’ or horse-breakers [AND]. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Feb. 3/2: And tigers might have heard the Boss ere any harm was done — For when he passed it was a sort of dot and carry one. | |
| First Place to Stranger 135: Those tigers (he meant the shearers) will make you dance [AND]. |
(g) any outdoor male servant.
| DSUE (8th edn) 1232/2: from ca. 1840. |
(h) (US) a ‘bouncer’ in a casino.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
(i) (Aus.) a (hard) worker in a shearing shed.
| ‘A Rough Shed’ in Roderick (1972) 463: ‘Go it, you — tigers,’ yells a tar-boy. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Dec. 14/2: And, anyhow, if ‘Werrimee’ is a ‘bustler’ or a ‘tiger,’ a paddockful of State Frights in full cry wouldn’t keep him awake after a day’s shearing. |
2. (US) a form of college cheer; esp. in phr. three cheers and a tiger, the three usual ‘hip-hip-hoorays’ plus a long-drawn-out shriek, often of the word ‘tiger’; note Bulletin (Sydney) 30 June Red Page/2: Tradition and custom hold that the ‘tiger’ is a howl which accentuates the cheers and intensifies the applause. The best of several ‘origins’ tells how, early in this century, an American politician, S.S. Prentiss, was stumping the country, and came to a town where there was a small menagerie on exhibition. This he hired for a day and threw it open to all-comers, availing himself of the occasion to make a political speech. The orator, holding a 10ft. pole, stood on the tiger’s cage, in the roof of which there was a hole, and whenever the multitudes applauded one of his ‘points’ with three cheers, Prentiss poked the tiger, who uttered a harsh roar. From this three cheers and a tiger spread over the country.
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 3 Dec. n.p.: ‘Nine cheers and a tiger!’ [...] and they were given with a will. | |
| Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 24 July n.p.: Judge Van Cott, of the Gotham Club, proposed a toast, ‘Health, success, and prosperity to the members of the Brooklyn Base Ball Clubs,’ which was received with all the honors, and three time three a tiger. | |
| ‘Billy Barlow’ Bryant’s Songs from Dixie’s Land 15: Three cheers and a tiger for Billy Barlow. | |
| (con. 1837) Innocents at Home 417: They swung their hats and sent up three rousing cheers and a tiger. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 18 Nov. 7/4: When the victim [of a lynch-mob] had given his last kick, the assembled crowd [...] brought the ceremonies to an end with three cheers and a tiger. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 18 Nov. 5/6: the chief toast ‘down with dibbs and democracy’ was drunk with three times three and a tiger. | |
| ‘’Arry on the Elections’ Punch 27 July 39/1: O ’ip, ’ip ’ooray, an’ three more, and a tiger! | |
| Butte and Montana Beneath the X-Ray 62: Three Cheers and a Tiger for the Plumbers’ Union of Butte [DA]. | |
| Putting ’Em Over 30 May [synd. col.] Three Razzing Cheers and a Blind Tiger for Fuller Durham! | |
| Santa Fe 120: Three Cheers and a Tiger for the A.T. & S.F.R.R [DA]. |
3. (US) the game of faro; a faro table; thus buck the tiger [the card-game faro itself originated in mid-17C France, moving thence via Fr. immigrants to New Orleans and thus across the US. It takes its name f. the Egyptian Pharaoh, for unknown reasons, although it has been claimed that the early faro decks had a card with a picture of the Egyptian monarch].
| Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 55: Of these tables the ‘tiger’ claimed three — for faro was predominant in those days. | |
| Knickerbocker (N.Y.) xl (Oct.) 317: Such is ‘the tiger,’ as the faro-table is called. | |
| N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: ‘Well,’ sez I, ‘the “tiger” is genully considered the best, an’ then we have poker an’ eucre, an’ a occasional game of “seven up” or “old sledge!”’. | |
| Night Side of N.Y. 58: A sumptuous ‘free lunch’ for all who wish to pay their respects to the ‘tiger.’. | |
| Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/1: [headline] faro Fighting the Tiger — Where and How is is Done — The ‘Animal’ under a Cloud, and his Keepeers Discouraged. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 49: A regular out-and-out faro game, with all its paraphernalia, and elegant mahogany box ornamented with a handsome picture of the royal ‘tiger.’. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 8 Apr. 2/1: Beware of the ‘Tiger’ in the jungles of Florida. The authorities down there have a menagerie of [...] bunko beasts trained to prey on tho unwaey. | |
| More Ex-Tank Tales 58: You must have rapped ’em pretty hard that first night you fumbled with the tiger, eh? | |
| Sucker’s Progress 15: Tiger — Faro. During the early 1830’s a first-rate professional gambler carried his Faro outfit in a fine mahogany box on which was painted a picture of the Royal Bengal Tiger. A representation of the animal was also carved on the ivory chips and painted on the oilcloth layout. The gamblers adopted the tiger as the presiding deity of the game, and Faro soon became known throughout the country simply as ‘the tiger.’. | |
| Big Con 310: tiger. A faro-bank. |
4. (US) a prostitute [? she claws her partner + play on cat n.1 (1a)].
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
5. streaky bacon [its stripes].
| Police! 321: Bacon ... Tiger, Sheeney’s fear, sawney. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Tinkler-Gypsies of Galloway 194: Bacon? ‘Tiger,’ [said] the Carlisle lad. | |
| DSUE (1984) 1232: [...] from ca. 1890. |
6. (UK juv.) bread with a tough crust.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 246/1: Tiger (Boys’, 19 cent.). Tough-crusted bread. Probably from both offering a deal of fight. |
7. (Aus.) with ref. to alcohol [its ‘bite’].
(a) alcoholic liquor.
| Truth (Sydney) 26 May 1/7: The people of New South Wales spent £4,744,000 on ‘tiger’ during the past year [AND]. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 7 Dec. 4/3: He's known in every ‘Tiger’ joint. / From the Quay to Waterloo; / But he goes in there on business. / And never guzzles brew. | |
| Hilarities 8: They noticed that after the three cheers were given at the end Dame Nellie called for a ‘Tiger.’ Well she glanced at me when she said it [AND]. |
(b) a heavy drinker; cit. 1978 is poss. pun on the Esso petrol slogan (launched 1965) which called on motorists to ‘put a tiger in your tank’.
| More Aus. Nicknames 99: Tiger He likes getting tanked. |
8. a flat-iron.
| Seven Years Hard 122: Perhaps the reader may not be aware that [...] a ‘tiger,’ [is] a flat-iron. |
9. an outstanding boxer.
| ‘This Was Pugilism’ in New Yorker 25 June 56: To Dempsey, ‘my new white hope’ meant the same thing as ‘my new heavyweight,’ or ‘my new tiger that fights Claffey in Newark next week’. | |
| White Hopes 14: ‘My tiger,’ said the late James J. Johnston [...] ‘just sitting on the floor grabbing his groin, made more money in one year than the President’. | |
| Professional 220: ‘How’s your tiger?’ ‘He’s fine.’. | |
| Jocks 216: The easiest way for a manager to insure the result of a fight is to put his tiger in with what is called an ‘opponent,’ meaning a poor fighter. | |
| You Gotta Play Hurt 267: [T]he fight manager fears that his tiger may have bet on the other guy and intends to go Dixie when the bell rings. |
10. any outstanding individual.
| Drovers (1977) 5: The old man’s a tiger, you can’t beat him. | |
| 20 Nov. A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 45: We could not say much for the RAF pilot. He did not strike us as a ‘tiger.’. | |
| Poor Man’s Orange 109: ‘Fat lot you know about it,’ said Dolour crossly. ‘Sure I do. I’m a tiger with the tomatoes.’. | |
| (con. 1944) Big War 286: He turned tiger: got four of them hand-to-hand before they got him. | |
| Hall of Mirrors (1987) 55: I bet you’re a fast man [...] I bet you’re a tiger. | |
| Cutter and Bone (2001) 25: A v.p. by thirty, Cutter said, a real corporate tiger. | |
| About Face (1991) 136: When you put this kid in a battle he was a tiger – a brilliant, brave combat stud. |
11. (US black) the worst hand in poker.
| Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 68: In barrelhouse lingo ‘tiger’ meant the lowest hand a man could draw in a poker game [...] It takes nerve to hold onto a tiger and bluff it to win. |
12. (US teen) an attractive girl or boy.
| Times (Munster, IN) 19 Jan. 56/1: Slang keeps changing to keep up [...] ‘Tiger or Tigress’ — Good-looking boy or girl. |
13. as a term of address.
| (con. 1965-66) Rumor of War 286: [T]hey discharged him with a slap on the back and a cheery bid to ‘go back out there and get ’em, tiger’. | |
| Strip Tease 121: We stuck our necks out for you, tiger. | |
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 55: She’s all yours, Tiger [...] See you in the funny papers. | |
| Cobble Hill 194: Tupper [...] threw up on his shoes. ‘Easy there, tiger’ Stuart dashed around the bar and grabbed Tupper by the elbow . |
14. (US/P.R.) a newly arrived Puerto Rican immigrant [the ship Marine Tiger, which brought many Puerto Ricans to the US].
| Carlito’s Way 23: The tigers would go to the Cabo and the BC. |
15. (drugs) heroin [its ‘bite’].
| ‘Drug Sl. Vault’ on Erowid.org 🌐 Tiger Heroin. |
16. (S.Afr. black) a ten-rand note; thus five tiger, 50 rand, half tiger, five rand [its design].
| in Sun. Times (Johannesburg, S. Afr.) 1 May 15: Notes all have different names: a R10 is a cabbage (because it is green) or a tiger. |
17. see blind tiger n.
In derivatives
flashily dressed.
| My Shooting Box 83: It required all his remarkably good looks and quiet manner to redeem his attire from the charge of being kiddy at least, if not tigerish. | |
| My Novel (1884–5) I Bk VI 477: Nothing could be more vagrant, devil-me-carish, and, to use a slang word, tigerish, than his whole air. |
In compounds
(US) a gambling house that specializes in the game of faro.
| N.Y. in Slices 47: The groggeries and tiger dens in Parkplace and Centre-street and Chatham-street and the Sixth Ward generally were in quite a flutter. | |
| Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 23 Nov. 7/3: After show [...] visit to the tiger’s den — faro bank, roulette, poker, real ivory chips. | |
| Big Con 182: Little Chappie [...] sought him out in the den of the tiger. |
a gambler.
| Poker Stories 87: The game proceeded, but it was plainly evident that the unsophisticated young tiger hunter had something on his mind. | |
| Sucker’s Progress 31: The game proceeded, but it was plainly evident that the unsophisticated tiger hunter had something on his mind [from John F.B. Lillard’s Poker Stories]. |
(US) beer.
| G.I. Laughs 171: Tiger meat, beer. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 70: Cock ale [...] equivalent to the legendary tiger piss of our own time. | |
| (con. c.1970) Short Timers (1985) 86: He’s holding a large bottle of tiger piss — Vietnamese beer. |
1. (US) illicitly distilled whiskey.
| Beds. Times 31 July 2/5: [from Spirit of the Times (NY) ] A man who recollects well when the ‘Blind Tiger’ was the terror of the state, and ‘Tiger’s Milk’ was the favorite beverage of ferocious youths. | |
| Rogue River Courier (Grants Pass, OR) 2 Apr. 1/6: Thirst Reducers [...] Tigers milk. |
2. gin.
| DSUE (8th edn) 1233: [...] 1850 (OED); † by 1890. |
(Aus.) any form of strong liquor.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Aug. 15/1: For Jim’s thirst was a freakish thing – no matter how ’twas drenched / With tiger-snake or lightnin’ juice, it never yet was quenched. |
(US black) cheap, homemade gin or whisky.
| ‘Pearls Are a Nuisance’ Spanish Blood (1946) 116: I’ll just take this spare bottle of the tiger sweat to put me to sleep. | |
| ‘Short Order Crook’ in Ten Detective Aces Apr. 🌐 Save some of the tiger sweat fer me. |
In phrases
(N.Z. prison) an act of masturbation [rhy. sl.].
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 189/2: tiger tank n. an act of masturbation. |
In phrases
1. (also fight the tiger, hit…, hunt…, spread…, s tackle…, whip..., twist the tiger’s tail) to play the game of faro; thus fig. buck against the tiger / struggle with the tiger, to face overwhelming odds.
| Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 17 Feb. 6/1: ‘Come, gentlemen,’ says he, ‘one more glass, and let us go and “fight the tiger”.’ Well, what do you suppose they meant by the Tiger? why it was a ‘Faro Bank’ on one side, and a ‘Roll the Bones, and fair play,’ on the other. | |
| Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 43: Simon believes that he can whip the Tiger, a fair fight. | |
| N.Y. in Slices 27: Having supped leisurely, for which remember you are to pay nothing, (unless you choose to ‘try your luck’ a-fighting the tiger). | |
| Upper Ten Thousand 127: The boys never went to bed at all, but on their return from ‘fighting the tiger,’ [...] came down to the breakfast room. | |
| A Stray Yankee in Texas 183: All the rogues is thar fer some reason or nother [...] some to stock a jury, and a pile to ‘spread the tiger’ an play poker. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 12 Mar. 4/4: A third amused the company by informing them as to the luck he had had that day ‘bucking the tiger.’. | |
| Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 5/2: He tried to ‘struggle with the tiger’ by playing with a gambler who happened to be smarter than himself. | |
| My Diary in America II 171: A friend [...] promised to conduct me to a place where I might see the citizens ‘fight the tiger.’. | |
| Night Side of N.Y. 76: I have known hard-hearted individuals, who bucked against the ‘tiger,’ wish that it might fall in two pieces or might split apart. | |
| Curious Dreams 83: Hunting the ‘tiger,’ or some kindred game. | |
| Galaxy (N.Y.) July 67: Shabby-genteel men who bear unmistakable evidence In their speech, manner, and appearance of long and generally disastrous fighting with the tiger. | |
| Undeveloped West 92: I am never weary of watching the game, and the various fortunes of those who ‘buck against the tiger.’. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 96: Two gentlemen [...] bought twenty dollars’ worth of checks, and with them tackled the ‘tiger.’. | |
| Gabriel Conroy II 302: Sez you, ez gambols — gambols very deep — jess fights the tiger, wharever and whenever found. | |
| Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 17 July 7/3: We had gone to Boston to make something, and so we went to bucking the tiger. | |
| Chicago Trib. 25 May 13/5: Respected business-men [...] pay casual visits to No. 125 to pluck the tiger’s tail. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 22/3: He never refused to go out on a hunt for boss thieves, nor to ante-up his little pile when he bucked the tiger and lost. | |
| Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 5 col. 3: If they subsequently fight the tiger at the games of faro or roulette [F&H]. | |
| Bystander (Des Moines, IA) 27 Sept. 4/2: [He] subsequently ‘burned’ the money up — bucking the tiger’. | |
| Bar-20 vi: I calculates as how me an’ him’ll buck th’ tiger for a whirl – he’s shore lucky. [Ibid.] xi: Reckon I’ll hit th’ tiger a whirl. | |
| press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 130/1: He asked me if I had ever heard of Faro, and if I knew the meaning of ‘fighting the tiger.’ Soon afterwards I learned that I was conversing with the keeper of one of the most notable among the gaming hells of San Francisco. | |
| N.Y. Eve. Post 19 May n.p.: Keliher so dominated Coleman, that the latter could not resist numerous indicements to ‘buck the tiger.’. | |
| (ref. to late 19C) Amer. Madam (1981) 242: There was faro (bucking the tiger), blackjack (twenty-one), old sledge (seven up), the shell game, three card monte, chuck-a-luck, escarte and brag. | |
| Big Con 182: Among the old timers, it was twisting the tiger’s tail. [...] The highly synthetic thrill of bucking the tiger. [Ibid.] 310: To ‘twist the tiger’s tail,’ to play the faro-bank. | |
| Complete Guide to Gambling. |
2. to gamble.
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 231: He made ten fortunes while with Pendleton, of all of which he got rid, either by the most reckless extravagance, or bucking at faro. | |
| Literary Curiosities 1039: Tiger, To buck the, in American slang, to gamble, and especially in a gambling-hell. | |
| Wolfville 14: The rest of us who’s been buckin’ the game moderate an’ right cashes in at this. | |
| G.A. Sala in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 53/1: In the United States the operation of staking all one’s money in a gaming hell is called ‘bucking the tiger.’. | |
| Smoke Bellew (1926) 150: ‘I don’t want you to be bucking any games on your own,’ Smoke went on. ‘We’re going to divide the winnings, and I’ll need all our money to get started.’. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. |
(Aus.) out on a serious drinking-bout.
| Armidale Chron. (NSW) 25 Dec. 1/5: For three months of the present year no less than 2600 dozen bottles were emptied at the Royal Hotel at Moree. [...] Brethren, let us sing: The butcher, the baker, and the giddy J.P., / Go out on the ‘tiger’ in boozy Moree. | |
| Lithgow Mercury (NSW) 17 Feb. 6/3: ‘Well,’ he soliloquised, ‘You’ve often been on the tiger, old man, but this as tho first time you ever struck a whole blooming menagerie!’. | |
| Newcastle Morn. Herald (NSW) 14 Oct. 6/3: Those of our friends who have been on the ‘tiger’ for about three weeks or more are especially requested to come in and exhale spirituous odours for the benefit of those of our staff who have not lately been paid. | |
| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. | |
| I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 236/2: on the tiger – deliberately getting drunk. |
(US) said of one who loses heavily in a casino, esp. when playing faro.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 246/1: Tiger bit him hard (American gamester). Meaning that he had lost a good deal of money at a sitting. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US Und.) an underground high-security or punishment cell.
| Prison Sl. 8: Tiger Cage Some prisons have underground security sections that house inmates. A prison cell located in one of these underground sections is known as a tiger cage. |
In phrases
(Aus.) an enthusiast for a task.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Dec. 12/3: Theatrical women are tigers for propriety – in their way – and the wandering ewe-lambs of the flock feel frost in their bones so long as married actors’ wives are in the vicinity. | |
| Islanders (1933) 147: ‘Isn’t he a picture?’ she said. ‘Perfect. And he’s a tiger for dash, I’ll swear.’. |
(N.Z.) to vomit.
| postcard in DNZE (1998) 851/1: toss the tiger used among Auckland University students and others. |