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angel
noun- an outside investor, especially one who backs a theatrical production US, 1891
Theatrical origins. - A committee to save the 96-year-old Humphreys house at Hyde and Chestnut streets from the wrecker’s ax today was seeking an “angel” – a group or society willing to make a large cash pledge to start the drive for funds to save the ancient structure. — The San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 7, 31 August 1948
- Farrell quickly became THE “angel ” of the season when it was learned he was the sole backer of a musical called “Hold It!” — The San Francisco News, p. 11, 13 July 1948
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field, financial “angel” of left-wing groups, was called today to tell a Senate committee about the bail raised for four missing Communist leaders. — The San Francisco Examiner, p. 31, 11 July 1951
- a male homosexual US, 1927
Originally referred to the passive partner, but later to any homosexual. - — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 789, 1962
- Angel, to some, mends the crumpled wings and pride of the denigrated fairy. — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 21, 1972
- a nurse US
In the UK Angels was a BBC television drama series about nurses broadcast 1975–1983; and later, still focused on nurses and their lives, No Angels, Channel 4 television, 2004. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 8, 1991
- cocaine AUSTRALIA, 1942
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 11, 1986
- in aviation, a 1000-foot increment of altitude UK, 1943
- Thus, “angels two zero” is 20,000 feet. — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 8, 1991
- A former Marine, Bellisario insists on authenticity in aircraft and protocol, and accurate use of military vocabulary, from Angels (altitude in thousands of feet) to Zulu (Greenwich Mean Time). — The Stuart (Florida) News, p. 4 (TV Pastime), 29 December 1996
- in air combat, a misleading image or blind spot US
- id I know any pilots victimized by “angels”; what? Hadn’t I heard of an angel incident? — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 174, 1998
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