target for tonight

target for tonight

English

Noun

target for tonight (plural targets for tonight)

1. (Britain, 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.'