A concluding cheer. Mr. Bartlett connects it with the visit of the Boston Light Infantry to New York in the 1820s.
1856. Terrific cheers and a tiger.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 288 (Sept.).
1888. Some enthusiastic voice started up afresh, before the hurrahs were done, “A tiger for old Curley!”—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 28.
*** See also ROCKET.
