tiger cub
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- noun
- /ˈtaɪɡər kʌb/
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cachorro de tigre
- Left: Eight-week-old wild Amur tiger cub near its den in the Sikhote-Alin Reserve.
- month-old tiger cub
- two tiger cubs
- old tiger cub
That's an animal rights story, that a tiger cub has a timeout.
- That's an animal rights story, that a tiger cub has a timeout.
- The additional challenge for the mother is that she knows that one of these tiger Cubs, the naughty one, this is the naughty one next to me here.
Examples
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The seven-month-old Sumatran tiger cub made its first outdoor appearance on Wednesday.
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There is no surplus of tiger Cubs in North America.
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The additional challenge for the mother is that she knows that one of these tiger Cubs, the naughty one, this is the naughty one next to me here.
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...but from what I gathered, he was a scared, adorable tiger cub named Hu.
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In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.
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Animal rights activists found this two-month-old tiger cub for sale outside an exotic animal auction in Texas.
How Young
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Surface Forms
Morphology
tiger + cub
The literal combination of 'tiger' + 'cub' yields the straightforward meaning 'a young tiger', which is what a B1 learner would expect from the constituents. The financial sense ('a hedge fund spun off from Tiger Management') is a domain-specific metaphor/jargon that cannot be derived from the constituent meanings without extra contextual or background knowledge, so it would not be predictable to the learner.
Etymology
Tiger cub is a simple name: tiger, the big striped cat, and cub, a baby animal. Picture a small, playful tiger staying near its mother, so the phrase means 'a young tiger'.