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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Flash forward to 2019, a lonely Harvard University student named Alice wakes up from a one-night stand with fangs, an aversion to sunlight, and a thirst for blood.
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Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
Ballantine, July 8 Image Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie
Hayley, a struggling actress, wakes up from a one-night stand to find that the man she’s just slept with is a theater critic who’s written a career-ending one-star review of her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The film follows Tom, (Riley) a tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling the time between lessons and one-night stands.
—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
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Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
Ballantine, July 8 Image Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie
Hayley, a struggling actress, wakes up from a one-night stand to find that the man she’s just slept with is a theater critic who’s written a career-ending one-star review of her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
The film follows Tom, (Riley) a tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling the time between lessons and one-night stands.
—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
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“One-night stand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-night%20stand. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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