1. A terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
   "the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"
   - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement

1. A fierce or audacious person
   "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me" 
2. Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
   - Panthera tigris

Type of: big cat, cat, foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Part of: genus Panthera, Panthera

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