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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sexual encounter that is limited to only one occasion.
- noun A person that one has such an encounter with.
- noun A performance by a traveling musical or dramatic performer or group in one place on one night only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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 parties has no immediateintention orexpectation of establishing a longer-term sexual orromantic relationship . As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night. - noun idiomatic A person with whom one shares a single
sexual encounter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night
- noun a performance in one place on one night only
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