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Marine Tiger noun a recent arrival in New York City from Puerto Rico US From the name of a converted C4 troopship that brought many early Puerto Rican immigrants to the US.- They spoke only Spanish, but he would have known anyhow that they were recent arrivals–Marine Tigers–for only newcomers would play ball barefooted in the street. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 82, 1952
- — Dale Kramer and Madeline Karr, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 175, 1953
- The first carried so many immigrants that the slang term for a new arrival became Marine Tiger. — Dale Krame, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 77, 1953
- Later I called her my “marine Tiger,” after the ship that brought so many Puerto Ricans to New York. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 109, 1967
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