one-night stand

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a one-night stand

1. a sexual relationship which only lasts for one night, or a person who you have had this type of relationship with. I'd rather have a long-term relationship than a series of one-night stands. It's you I love, Karen - Debbie was just a one-night stand.

2. a performance which happens only once in a particular place. We're doing a one-night stand in Durham on Monday followed by a couple of nights in Newcastle.

See also: stand

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You see, he was billed for the king's-evil -- to touch for it, I mean -- and it wouldn't be right to disappoint the house and it wouldn't make a delay worth considering, any- way, it was only a one-night stand. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context More results

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