one-night stand

1. 1.

   a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night

   “he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands”

   Broaderpromiscuity
2. 2.

   a performance in one place on one night only

   Broaderperformance

Questions about one-night stand

What does one-night stand mean?

one-night stand means "a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is one-night stand a common word?

one-night stand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.