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one-nighter

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Noun

one-nighter noun

  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. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night.
  3. Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

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pump and dumpwham, bam, t…one-night st…oncernighterall-nighterhookupsmall and ea…barnightbunk-upone-nighter

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