one-night stand
noun
1
: a performance (as of a play or concert) given (as by a traveling group of actors or musicians) only once in each of a series of localities
2
a
: a locality used for one-night stands
b
: a stopover for a one-night stand
3
: a sexual encounter limited to a single occasion
also
: a partner in such an encounter
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The film follows Tom, (Riley) a tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling the time between lessons and one-night stands.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 5 May 2025
In the past few weeks, McBride has performed multi-night runs with his own Ursa Major band as well as part of a trio with pianist Brad Mehldau and Marcus Gilmore, before settling back into SFJAZZ for a one-night stand with this awesome quintet.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Only 23 percent of 18- to 27-year-olds said their friends commonly had one-night stands.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
This is because, unlike a one-night stand or a drunken tryst, emotional cheating revolves around the deeper facets of intimacy—the truly personal ones.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Brent Lang, Variety, 5 May 2025
In the past few weeks, McBride has performed multi-night runs with his own Ursa Major band as well as part of a trio with pianist Brad Mehldau and Marcus Gilmore, before settling back into SFJAZZ for a one-night stand with this awesome quintet.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Only 23 percent of 18- to 27-year-olds said their friends commonly had one-night stands.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
This is because, unlike a one-night stand or a drunken tryst, emotional cheating revolves around the deeper facets of intimacy—the truly personal ones.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for one-night stand
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“One-night stand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-night%20stand. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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