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Tassie tigers

Tassie tigers is the plural of Tassie tiger.

Meaning of Tassie tiger

Noun

Tassie tiger (plural Tassie tigers)

  1. (informal) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
    • 'But no one's seen a Tassie tiger for over seventy years.'
    • 'Wrong, tosh. Quite wrong. Why does that not surprise me? There have been hundreds of sightings of the Tassie tiger. What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger."2010, Barry Jonsberg, Blacky Blasts Back: On the Tail of the Tassie Tiger, Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, page 43

Questions about Tassie tigers

What is Tassie tigers the plural of?
Tassie tigers is the plural of Tassie tiger.

Words near Tassie tigers in the dictionary

  1. Tassi
  2. tassie
  3. Tassie devil
  4. Tassie devils
  5. Tassie tiger
  6. Tassie tigers
  7. tassies
  8. Tassin
  9. Tassinari
  10. Tassinaris
  11. Tassins

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