Hi
I recently came across the term ‘tiger helmet’ but no description.
What does it look like and who usually wears one?
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Can you give us any sort of context?
Who wears one? Perhaps a football player at Clemson University.
Seems like it could be a reference to at Pith Helmet.
Could be a perfectly compositional compound: it’s either a helmet worn by tigers (maybe a scaled-up version of this hard hat for a housecat), or a helmet for humans with a tiger motif.
From the Google hits, this is my favorite.
Here’s an exceptionally boring one.
Though this one isn’t bad.
Or it could be a name for a particular haircut.
First thing I though of was a helmet with a face painted on the back–like the masks worn by people in India with the belief that tigers won’t attack someone who is looking at them.
First thing I thought of as well.
The Tiger Performance company makesflight helmets. However, there are a lot of possibilities and we can’t really give a definite answer without context.
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And I was hoping it would be like the Siberian bear hunting outfit.
https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/siberian-bear-hunting-suit-from-the-1800s
My first thought as well, I third this option.
Me too.
I’m not sure if this has been resolved or not, but this is what several of us were talking about:
Fishermen and bushmen originally created masks made to look like faces to wear on the back of their heads because tigers always attack from behind. This worked for a short time, but the tigers quickly realized it was a hoax, and the attacks reportedly continued. One local honey gatherer, Surendra Jana, 57, expressed that the tigers seem to have caught on to the mask trick, “Before we could understand the way they attacked. We don’t feel safe any more, knowing our brothers have been attacked in spite of the tricks we use.”[6]