one-night stand

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Noun

one-night stand

1. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
2. (idiomatic) A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the partners has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
3. (idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.
   • 2004, Paul G. Nation, The Jacksonville Four: Living Where Money Grows on Trees, AuthorHouse (2004), ISBN 1418489964, page 20 ↗:

     Chet's mom was never home. She always went out gambling, partying and staying overnight with one of her sugar daddies. Chet never met his father. He was just a one-night stand she'd had eighteen years ago.

   • 2009, HoneyB, Single Husbands, Grand Central Publishing (2009), ISBN 9780446582308, unnumbered page ↗:

     She was a one-night stand he'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name.

   • 2011, Jane Graves, Black Ties and Lullabies, Forever (2011), ISBN 9780446568470, unnumbered page ↗:

     “So she was just a one-night stand like all the rest?”

Synonyms

• (single sexual encounter) pump and dump; wham, bam, thank you ma'am

Translations

• French: soirée unique
• Italian: singola rappresentazione
• Spanish: representación única

Translations

• French: coup d'un soir, coucherie, liaison sans lendemain, plan cul
• German: einmalige Angelegenheit, One-Night-Stand
• Italian: una botta e via
• Portuguese: ficada
• Russian: рома́н на одну́ ночь
• Spanish: aventura de una noche

Translations

• Spanish: amante de una noche

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