tiger cat

English

Noun

tiger cat (plural tiger cats)

1. Leopardus tigrinus (oncilla).
2. A margay.
3. An ocelot.
4. A serval.
5. (Australia) The tiger quoll, Dasyurus maculatus. [from 19th c.]
   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 392:

     A capacious room […] slowly appeared around me, large enough to accommodate perhaps twenty people, though presently home only to two potaroos & one tiger cat which had scampered out after I entered.

6. (Canadian football) A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).

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