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- # An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
The tone of "you're on your own afterward" is common to both this sense and the sexual one, and the sexual sense surely arises from using the theatrical one as a metaphor.
Note that Googling
- "One-night stand" vaudeville
produces "about 19,800 English" hits.
--User:Jerzy·t 20:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Is sense 1 still in common use? – Jberkel 21:21, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply