one-night stand

Noun

one-night stand (plural one-night stands)

1. An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
   • Again, when the affair is over, I catch a glimpse of myself running to catch a train for our next one-night stand.1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post
   • 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.1948, Barré Lyndon, Jonathan Latimer (screenplay), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (motion picture), spoken by John Triton (Edward G. Robinson)
2. (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.
   • Near-synonyms: hit and run; pump and dump; wham, bam, thank you ma'am

   Synonyms:

   hit and run, pump and dump, wham, bam, thank you ma'am

3. (idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.
   • 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.2004, Paul G. Nation, The Jacksonville Four: Living Where Money Grows on Trees, AuthorHouse, published 2004, →ISBN, page 20
   • She was a one-night stand he'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name.2009, HoneyB, Single Husbands, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page