Usually means: Casual sexual encounter, no commitment.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word one-night stand:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. one-night stand: Merriam-Webster
  2. one-night stand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. one-night stand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. one-night stand, one-night stand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. one-night stand: Vocabulary.com
  6. one-night stand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. one-night stand: Wiktionary
  8. one-night stand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. one-night stand: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. one-night stand: Dictionary.com
  11. One-night stand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. one-night stand: Rhymezone
  13. one-night stand: FreeDictionary.org
  14. one-night stand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. one-night stand: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. one-night stand: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. one-night stand: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. one-night stand: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. one-night stand: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See one-night_stands as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (one-night stand)

noun:  An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (idiomatic) Either of the two partners involved in such a single sexual encounter.

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