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target for tonight

target for tonight noun: a girlfriend or lover.

Noun

target for tonight (plural targets for tonight)

  1. (UK, slang, RAF) A girlfriend or lover.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of target for tonight

pluraltargets for tonight

Questions about target for tonight

What does target for tonight mean?
Target for tonight means a girlfriend or lover.
What part of speech is target for tonight?
Target for tonight is a noun.
What is the plural of target for tonight?
The plural of target for tonight is targets for tonight.

Words near target for tonight in the dictionary

  1. target cells
  2. target control
  3. target controls
  4. target domain
  5. target domains
  6. target for tonight
  7. target girl
  8. target girls
  9. target group
  10. target groups
  11. target language

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