An obsolete North American term for the puma (also known as the mountain lion or cougar). The name presumably references the animal's tawny, reddish-brown coat and its fierce predatory nature. The term is now entirely historical and is not used in modern wildlife, hunting, or popular culture contexts. Of interest primarily to historians of American English, naturalists studying historical terminology, or readers of early American literature and frontier accounts.
The trapper's journal described an encounter with what he called a red tiger, a creature that had stalked his camp for three nights.
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(US, Canada, obsolete) The puma.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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