tiger cat

English

Noun

tiger cat (plural tiger cats)

1. Any of several species of felids:
   1. An oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus).
   2. A margay (Leopardus wiedii).
   3. An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
   4. A serval (Leptailurus serval).
2. (Australia) A 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.

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

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