one-night stand
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈwʌnˌnaɪt stænd/
- NSFW
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aventura de una noche
- I like you, but I'm not looking for a one night stand.
It was kind of a one night stand that became like a four night stand.
- It was kind of a one night stand that became like a four night stand.
- Never have I ever had a one night stand.
- And two is have you had enough one night stands?
- Listen, this dating world is full of hookups and flings, one night stands and things like that.
- Wait so is she saying that they just had a one night stand one time only and that she got pregnant?
- That that that's kind of different than the one night stand you have with the girl that you met at the store.
- Yes, I have had a fair few one night stands.
- Well, especially with Tyler, it's mostly about date ability and not like a one night stand.
- So if you're using dating apps and you're like, I just want to maximize one night stands, you're probably going to be very frustrated.
- You know, I think there's, there's obviously physical cheating where I cheated and it was purely one night stand.
- You know, a great many people are having these one night stands and friends with benefits and living together before they marry.
- But once you're at that level, if you want to in a modern mating market, you can have, you could have a one night stand every week.
- We know that the relationship is worth more than a one night stand with someone else, and we're mature enough to understand the consequences of our actions.
- She's like, you're gonna have a crazy one night stand in September with the Sagittarius and I'm sitting there like I'm gonna do what now?
- Is it ever a good idea to create a one night stand for yourself?
Examples
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A guy is asking for a one-night stand with somebody they are friends with.
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I was 22; it was a one-night stand, though I still see him around.
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Like is it the real thing or is it just a one night stand with it?
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It's a one night stand.
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You know, a great many people are having these one night stands and friends with benefits and living together before they marry.
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I mean, it was a one-night stand.
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Just a one-night stand to me, that's all.
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Listen, this dating world is full of hookups and flings, one night stands and things like that.
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I've had seven lovers in my life, three of which were one-night stands.
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He said he wasn't interested in anything serious, just a one-night stand.
Synonyms
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8.2
A casual sexual or romantic meeting with no long-term commitment
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9.9
A person you have sex with once without a relationship
A short romantic or sexual meeting that lasts part of one night without starting a relationship
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
one-night + stand
Although 'one-night' transparently signals a duration of a single night, the noun 'stand' does not compose with that duration to predict the specific meaning 'brief sexual encounter.' The sexual/euphemistic sense is idiomatic and not derivable from the literal meanings of the constituents, so a B1 learner who only knows the words would likely not infer the full meaning reliably.
Etymology
One-night stand later came to mean a single sexual meeting. The idea of a one-night stand, something that happens for just one night, is why it now means 'a brief sexual encounter'.