tiger(1) (iou) and Toehold purchase (finance)

tiger(1) (iou)

tiger noun. Also (arch.) tyger. ME.
[Old & mod. French tigre from Latin tigris from Greek.]
A large powerful carnivorous feline, Panthera tigris, tawny yellow in colour with blackish transverse stripes and a white belly, found in several races (some now extinct) in parts of Asia. ME.
W. Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night. Honey He fought like a tiger for the part..in the Film.
Any of various Other wild animals of the cat family as the jaguar, the puma, the leopard. Also, any of several Other unrelated carnivores resembling tigers in size, build, or markings. Usu. with qualifying word. LME.
An image or representation of a tiger; this used as a badge or crest; an organization, society, team, etc., having this badge; a member of such a society. LME.
Daily Mail The Tigers..expect a bigger attendance..even though the game is on the last Saturday before Christmas.
a. A savage or bloodthirsty person; a person of great energy, strength, or courage; spec. (colloq.) (in full fen tiger) a native of the Fens. Also, a fierce or rapacious animal. LME.
T. K. Wolfe Young tigers, all..desperate to become astronauts.
b. Tigerish spirit or character. E19.
T. Hook The..nonsense which the..fools talked, had nearly roused the tiger.
c. A person with an insatiable appetite for something, as work or alcohol. colloq. (chiefly Austral. & NZ). L19.
d. Alcoholic drink. dial. & Austral. slang. E20.
e. An outstanding sportsman or sportswoman; esp. a climber of great skill and confidence. slang. E20.
f. Any of the more successful small economies of eastern Asia, esp. those of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. slang. L20.
An overdressed person. Also, a hanger-on, a parasite. slang. M18-M19.
ellipt. = tiger moth, tiger-shark, tiger-snake, etc.: see below. L18.
a. A usu. liveried boy acting as a groom, footman, or Other servant. slang. Now rare or obsolete. E19.
b. A person engaged in menial Employment; spec. a sheep-shearer. Austral. slang. M19.
c. A captain's personal steward. Nautical slang. E20.
A shriek or howl, freq. of the word 'tiger', terminating a prolonged and enthusiastic cheer. US slang. M19.
Cards.
a. Faro. US slang. M19.
b. The lowest possible hand at Poker. L19.
Any of various implements. M19.
Phrases: a tiger in one's tank [from a petrol advertising campaign] energy, spirit, animation. BENGAL tiger. blind tiger: see BLIND adjective. buck the tiger, fight the tiger US slang at faro or roulette, play against the bank; gamble, play cards. have a tiger by the tail have entered into an undertaking etc. which proves unexpectedly difficult but cannot easily or safely be abandoned. heraldic tyger Heraldry a creature represented as having the body and tail of a lion, the neck of a horse, and a head like that of a wolf with the upper jaw bearing a small tusk. MANCHURIAN tiger. paper tiger: see PAPER noun & adjective. ride a tiger take on a responsibility or embark on a course of action which subsequently cannot easily or safely be abandoned. royal BENGAL tiger. sabretooth tiger, sabre-toothed tiger: see SABRE noun1. SCARLET tiger (moth). SIBERIAN tiger. Tasmanian tiger: see TASMANIAN adjective.
Comb.: Tiger balm (proprietary name for) a mentholated ointment widely used in Eastern medicine for a variety of conditions; tiger barb any of several freshwater fishes of the genus Barbus of an orange colour with dark stripes; tiger beetle a member of the family Cicindelidae of active predatory beetles having elongated legs and freq. striped wing-cases; tiger bittern any of several bitterns having striped (esp. orange and black) plumage, as Tigriornis leucolophus of W. Africa, Gorsachius melanolophus of southern Asia, and members of the genus Tigrisoma of S. America; tiger-cat (a) any of several medium-sized members of the cat family, as the serval, the margay; esp. the dark-striped Felis tigrina of Central and S. America; (b) = DASYURE; (c) a tabby cat, esp. one having vertical stripes; tiger-eye = tiger's-eye below; tiger-finch the red avadavat, Amandava amandava; tigerfish any of several predatory marine and freshwater fishes, typically noted for aggressiveness or for striped markings; esp.: (a) a very large characin of the African genus Hydrocynus, esp. H. vittatus, a silvery game-fish; (b) the S. American Hoplias malabaricus; (c) the Indo-Pacific Therapon jarbua, a Food fish in Japan; (d) an Indo-Pacific scorpion fish, Pterois radiata; tiger-flower = TIGRIDIA; tiger heron = tiger bittern above; tiger-hunter a person who hunts tigers; US slang a gambler; tiger-iris = tiger-flower above; tiger lily a Far Eastern lily, Lilium tigrinum, grown for its orange-red flowers marked with purple-black spots; tiger maple N. Amer. a kind of maplewood with strongly contrasting light and dark lines in the grain; tiger moth any of several boldly patterned moths of the family Arctiidae, esp. Arctia caja, a large scarlet and brown moth spotted and streaked with white; tiger-nut the tuber of the plant Cyperus esculentus, of the sedge family, used locally as Food; also called rush-nut; tiger prawn Austral. a large prawn marked with dark bands, of the genus Penaeus; tiger salamander a large N. American salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, which is blackish with yellow patches or stripes; tiger's-eye (a) a yellowish-brown semiprecious variety of quartz with a silky or chatoyant lustre, formed by replacement of crocidolite; (b) US a crystalline pottery glaze with gold-coloured reflections; tiger-shark any of several voracious sharks marked with stripes or spots, as Galeocerdo cuvieri of warm seas and Stegostoma tigrinum of the Indian Ocean; tiger-snake (a) a venomous Australian elapid snake of the genus Notechis, esp. the brown and yellow N. scutatus; (b) a slightly venomous striped southern African colubrid snake of the genus Telescopus, esp. T. semiannulatus; tiger-stripe a striped pattern resembling that of a tiger's coat; a thing, esp. a domestic cat, having such a stripe; tiger-striped adjective marked with a tiger-stripe; tiger-ware stoneware with a mottled brown glaze, orig. from Germany; tiger-wolf the spotted hyena; tiger-wood any of several streaked woods used for cabinet-making; esp. (US) that of the African walnut, Lovoa trichilioides.
tigerhood noun the state or condition of being a tiger M19.
tigerine adjective (rare) = TIGRINE E19.
tigerism noun (slang, now rare) the qualities or attributes of a tiger or overdressed person; vulgar ostentation or affectation: M19.
tiger-like adjective & adverb (a) adjective resembling (that of) a tiger, tigerish; (b) adverb in a tigerish manner: M16.
tigerly adjective (rare) tiger-like, tigerish M17.
tigery adjective (rare) tigerish, tiger-like M19.

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