target for tonight

English

Noun

target for tonight (plural targets for tonight)

  1. (UK, RAF, slang) A girlfriend or lover.
    • 1989, Fiona Glass, Philip Marsden, Articles of War: The Spectator Book of World War II, page 364:
      Having conducted a skirt patrol a young officer, if he is lucky, will have fixed up his target for tonight.
    • 2017, Nick Triplow, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir:
      Lewis would look in and select his 'target for tonight', echoing the wartime RAF propaganda film. He might have his eye on a particular girl.
    • 2018, Mark Cote, That Lucky Old Son, page 22:
      We'll put it all right when he is done converting his 'target for tonight' into the 'trouble and strife.'
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