Obtain contact information for the people you will be working with directly: director, production manager, stage manager (SM), soundboard operator (SO), and dance and fight choreographers. […] Early in the process is the time to ask the stage manager their preference for labeling music cues (numerically or alphabetically). The SM will have a system for calling cues: […]. 2022 December 24, Richard Jennings, “Music for Plays, a Step-by-Step Guide”, in American Theatre:
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of sexual minority (“non-heterosexual”) (Also used attributively.)
Transmission of HPV between female partners is possible and has been documented. There exists a higher proportion of current or former smokers among sexual minority (SM) women, a known risk factor for cervical cancer. 2016, Kristen Eckstrand, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare: A Clinical Guide to Preventive, Primary, and Specialist Care, Springer, →ISBN, page 99:
(alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of S&M (“sadomasochism”).
SM is not the sharing of power, it is merely a depressing replay of the old and destructive dominant/subordinate mode of human relating and one-sided power. 1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
(US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of standard missile.