A member of a guerrilla organization seeking the establishment of an independent state in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the Tamil community.

A large shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, of wide warm-water distribution, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.

A former guerrilla and conventional militant organization that sought the establishment of an independent homeland (ஈழம் (īḻam, “Eelam”)) in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the minority Tamil community.

The extinct carnivorous marsupial Thylacinus cynocephalus, once native to Tasmania.

A species of tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, that became extinct in the 1930s.

(Britain, criminal, slang) To abduct someone, or to hold someone hostage, in order to persuade someone else to assist in a crime.

(Britain, criminal, slang) An abduction or hostage-taking of this kind.

(idiomatic) A seemingly fierce or powerful person, country or organisation without the ability to back up their words; apparently powerful but actually ineffective.

A large marine crustacean, Penaeus monodon, widely reared for food

(idiomatic) A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes.