# one-night stand

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
2. 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.
3. Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

## Source
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