Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

Etymologies

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tiger +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Has took a deep drag from his blunt, his already tigerlike eyes squinting as he released the smoke through the side of his mouth.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Has took a deep drag from his blunt, his already tigerlike eyes squinting as he released the smoke through the side of his mouth.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Has took a deep drag from his blunt, his already tigerlike eyes squinting as he released the smoke through the side of his mouth.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • Has took a deep drag from his blunt, his already tigerlike eyes squinting as he released the smoke through the side of his mouth.

    Real wifeys Meesha Mink 2011

  • What feels "dangerous"--or tigerlike--to me lately is choosing to keep learning moviemaking by myself, despite the well-intentioned advice of several people that I take classes.

    Blue Moon, White Tiger Fresca 2010

  • Screaming oaths at his captor, Eskot began to fight with tigerlike ferocity.

    I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

  • In snapshots taken when she was four months old, she appears to be the epitome of sweetness and serenity, with tigerlike stripes adorning her black-velvet body and green eyes glowing like heated emeralds.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • In snapshots taken when she was four months old, she appears to be the epitome of sweetness and serenity, with tigerlike stripes adorning her black-velvet body and green eyes glowing like heated emeralds.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats Jack Canfield 2008

  • But the Scottish knight, who had stood the lion-anger of Richard, was unappalled at the tigerlike mood of the chafed Saracen.

    The Talisman 2008

  • The first of the assassins reached the window ledge: he sprang tigerlike upon it and peered into the chamber.

    Excerpt: Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud 2005

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