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one-night stand

[ wuhn-nahyt stand ]

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noun

a single performance in one locale, as by a touring theatrical company, before moving on to the next engagement.
a place where such a performance is given.
Slang.
1. a single, unrepeated sexual encounter, as one lasting for just one night.
2. a participant in such an encounter.

one-night stand

a performance given only once at any one place
informal.
1. a sexual encounter lasting only one evening or night
2. a person regarded as being only suitable for such an encounter

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one-night stand def 1 is an Americanism dating back to 1875–80; one-night stand def 3 was first recorded in 1935–40.

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I ask him a question about his rumored one-night stand with Salon reporter Tracy Clark-Flory.

Rivers told Howard Stern in 2012 she had had affairs while married to Rosenberg, including a one-night stand with Robert Mitchum.

Elizabeth Banks stars as a woman who has to traverse a city after losing her wallet post-one-night stand.

Author Joe McGinniss writes that she and Rice had a one-night stand nine months before she married Todd Palin.

My own travels had been more of the Drink, Scream, Ill-Advised One-Night-Stand variety.

The tractor was churning through the sand just before sundown, heading toward another one-night stand at a new village.

By the way, Mr. Morgan, we shall leave your trunks, but I can supply you with everything for a 'one-night stand.'

I began to feel more like an extra super in a one-night stand than a real soldier.

The first test of his resource came at a one-night stand—Waupaca, Iowa—where "Lemons" was billed as a feature.

Applications for time had to be made individually to every manager direct, even in the case of the most obscure one-night stand.

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