tiger's milk

noun

The sauce or marinade, made with lime juice and fish, in which ceviche is cured.

OriginSpanish leche de tigre →
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Meanings

nountiger's milk (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe sauce or marinade, made with lime juice and fish, in which ceviche is cured.

Origin

  1. Spanishleche de tigre
  2. Englishtiger's milk

Calque of Spanish leche de tigre

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