cherubs

English

Etymology

Hebrew כרוב (“cherub”) + English -s plural suffix

Noun

cherubs

  1. plural of cherub
  2. (aviation, military, slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.[n 1]

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References

  1. ^ United States Department of Defense Air Land Sea Application Center (May 2020), “Multi-service Brevity Codes”, in Brevity: Multi-service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Multi-service Brevity Codes‎[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2021, page 6: “CHERUBS: Height of FRIENDLY aircraft in hundreds of feet above surface.”

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