one-night stand

one-night stand
noun
1. a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night
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he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands

• Hypernyms: ↑promiscuity, ↑promiscuousness, ↑sleeping around
2. a performance in one place on one night only
• Hypernyms: ↑performance

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one-night stand «WUHN NYT», U.S.
1. a) a show for one night in a town by a touring company of actors or other performers. b) the place where such a show is given.
2. Slang. an act of sexual intercourse engaged in casually, as with a stranger: »

He has never picked up anybody for a one-night stand (Anne Taylor Fleming).

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n.
1) informal (also one-nighter) a sexual relationship lasting only one night
■ a person with whom one has such a relationship
2) a single performance of a play or show in a particular place

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noun, pl ⋯ stands [count]
1 : a situation in which you have sex with someone once and you do not continue in a relationship afterwards

I really hope this wasn't just a one-night stand.

also : one of the people involved in this situation

She was a one-night stand. I haven't seen her since.

2 : a performance of a play, concert, etc., that is given only once in a particular place

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ˌone-night ˈstand [one-night stand one-night stands] noun (informal)
a sexual relationship that lasts for a single night; a person that sb has this relationship with

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I wanted it to be more than a one-night stand.

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For her I was just a one-night stand.


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