target for tonight

plural targets for tonight

1. UKslangRAFA girlfriend or lover.

   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

   2 more examples

   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