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target for tonight en · NOUN
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(UK, qualifier:RAF, slang) A girlfriend or lover.
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.
2017, Nick Triplow, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir:Having conducted a skirt patrol a young officer, if he is lucky, will have fixed up his target for tonight.
1989, Fiona Glass, Philip Marsden, Articles of War: The Spectator Book of World War II, page 364:We'll put it all right when he is done converting his 'target for tonight' into the 'trouble and strife.'
2018, Mark Cote, That Lucky Old Son, page 22:
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