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English
Pronunciation
Noun
one-night stand (plural one-night stands)
- An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post:Again, when the affair is over, I catch a glimpse of myself running to catch a train for our next one-night stand.
1948, Barré Lyndon, Jonathan Latimer (screenplay), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (motion picture), spoken by John Triton (Edward G. Robinson):It wasn't until the third or fourth or fifth drops that I became aware of this rain that was to engulf my life. I remember the date, August 3, 1928. We were playing a one-night stand in a small town in Louisiana, Glenberry.
- (idiomatic) 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. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
- Synonyms: pump and dump; wham, bam, thank you ma'am
- Hypernym: hookup
- Coordinate term: one-minute stand
- (idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.
2004, Paul G. Nation, The Jacksonville Four: Living Where Money Grows on Trees, AuthorHouse, published 2004, →ISBN, page 20:Chet's mom was never home. She always went out gambling, partying and staying overnight with one of her sugar daddies. Chet never met his father. He was just a one-night stand she'd had eighteen years ago.
2009, HoneyB, Single Husbands, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page:She was a one-night stand he'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name.
2011, Jane Graves, Black Ties and Lullabies, Forever, published 2011, →ISBN:“So she was just a one-night stand like all the rest?”
Translations
sexual encounter
- Arabic: لِقَاء جِنْسِيّ لِلَيْلَة وَاحِدَة (liqāʔ jinsiyy li-layla wāḥida)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一夜情 (zh) (yíyèqīng), (slang) 419 (four-one-nine)
- Danish: engangsknald n, one-night stand n
- Dutch: avontuurtje (nl) n, one-night stand (nl) n
- Esperanto: ununokta amoro
- Finnish: yhden yön juttu, hoito (fi)
- French: coup d’un soir (fr), coucherie (fr) f, aventure sans lendemain f
- German: einmalige Angelegenheit f, One-Night-Stand (de) m
- Hebrew: סטוץ (he) m (stutz)
- Hungarian: egyéjszakás kaland
- Icelandic: einnar nætur gaman n, skyndikynni n pl
- Italian: una botta e via
- Japanese: 一夜限りの関係 (いちやかぎりのかんけい, ichiya kagiri no kankei), 一夜の情事 (いちやのじょうじ, ichiya no jōji)
- Korean: 원나잇 (wonnait)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: one night stand m or n, engangsligg n
- Portuguese: ficada (pt) f
- Russian: рома́н на одну́ ночь m (román na odnú nočʹ), случа́йная связь f (slučájnaja svjazʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: veza za jednu noć f
- Sicilian: ficcata f, futtuta f, trummata f, azziccata f, nfilata f
- Spanish: aventura de una noche f
- Swahili: ngono ya usiku mmoja
- Swedish: engångsligg (sv), ragg (sv), ligg (sv), one-night stand (sv)
- Turkish: tek gecelik ilişki
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either of the two partners
Further reading
Danish
Noun
one-night stand
- Alternative form of one-night-stand
2009, Charlotte Heje Haase, Skydykker uden faldskærm, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
2016, Anders Løgstrup Bjerg, Regnen falder, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
2011, Dorte Toft, Lykkelig i nørdland: Hvem bygger fremtiden? En tankevækker til fædre, mødre og andre, der påvirker pigers studievalg, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN: