Usually means: Seemingly powerful, actually ineffectual entity.
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  1. paper tiger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paper tiger: Merriam-Webster
  3. paper tiger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paper tiger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paper tiger: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paper tiger: Vocabulary.com
  7. paper tiger: Wordnik
  8. paper tiger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paper tiger: Wiktionary
  10. paper tiger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paper tiger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. paper tiger: Dictionary.com
  13. Paper Tiger (hip hop producer), Paper tiger (disambiguation), Paper tiger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. paper tiger: Rhymezone
  15. paper tiger: FreeDictionary.org
  16. paper tiger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. paper tiger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Paper tiger: Phrase Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paper tiger: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See paper_tigers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (paper tiger)

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

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