Definition of "TL"

TL

noun
plural TLs
1. (linguistics) Initialism of target language.
2. (informal) Abbreviation of translator.
3. (informal) Abbreviation of translation.
4. (Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.
5. Abbreviation of turntable ladder.
6. Abbreviation of team leader.
7. (ecology) Initialism of trophic level.
8. Abbreviation of Turkish lira.
9. (slang, dated) Initialism of trade-last.
  Quotations
  Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
  1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201
  So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]
  1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71