Meanings
plural one-nighters
- Synonym of one-night stand (single evening's performance)
That evening, the Epsilons got to sing for Redding, who asked the boys to join his Revue. Gene, John, and Alan remained in the entourage for a year before tiring of the one-nighter grind.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 360Synonyms: one-night stand
- Synonym of one-night stand (single sexual encounter)
I am clean, sincere, not out for 1 nighters. Lking for gd friend, definitely relationship.
1980 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14Synonyms: one-night stand
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of one-night stand (single evening's performance)
nounSynonym of one-night stand (single sexual encounter)
Origin
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