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Tiger Town

Tiger Town proper noun: nickname for Clemson: a city in Pickens County and Anderson County, capital city of South Carolina, United States.

Proper noun

Tiger Town

  1. Nickname for Clemson: a city in Pickens County and Anderson County, capital city of South Carolina, United States.
    • Although the team had only an 8-7 season record, they managed to upset a highly-touted Clemson Tiger nine 13-9 in Tiger Town.2004 February 19, Bob A. Nestor, Baseball in Greenville and Spartanburg, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN

Forms of Tiger Town

alternative formTigertown

Origin of Tiger Town

Referencing Clemson University's athletics teams, the Clemson Tigers, and their mascot, The Tiger. Clemson is a university town, and a large amount of its population is currently or was previously enrolled at the school or a fan of their football team.

Questions about Tiger Town

What does Tiger Town mean?
Tiger Town means nickname for Clemson: a city in Pickens County and Anderson County, capital city of South Carolina, United States.
What part of speech is Tiger Town?
Tiger Town is a proper noun.

Words near Tiger Town in the dictionary

  1. tiger team
  2. tiger teams
  3. tiger tiger
  4. tiger toast
  5. tiger toasts
  6. Tiger Town
  7. tiger wolf
  8. tiger wolves
  9. tiger wood
  10. tiger's blood
  11. tiger's claw

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