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]}

Synonyms

• cherubim (traditional plural)

Anagrams

• Buscher, Buchers, becrush

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, archived from the original on 30 June 2021, page 6: “CHERUBS: Height of FRIENDLY aircraft in hundreds of feet above surface.”