单词 | one-nighter |
释义 | one-nightern. 1. colloquial (originally U.S.). = one-night stand n. at one-night adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > other types début1751 vehicle1785 benefit1802 showpiece1810 ticket-night1812 yatra1827 command1839 lollipopa1849 party piece1851 roadshow1874 one-night stand1878 stand1878 one-man show1879 small1886 command performance1897 ticket benefit1898 frivol1903 run-through1905 pre-production1906 riot1909 one-nighter1916 gala performance1932 improv1953 warm-up1958 workshopping1966 impro1979 1916 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 27 Sept. 7 Scenery that exactly fits the situation, special properties and effects a la the one nighter, bring the productions up to and a little above the average high priced attraction. 1935 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. ix. 2/5 Don't dare to offer the meanest one-nighter anything which you wouldn't dare to offer a metropolis. 1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 22 Johnny hasn't quite become a national star yet, but he pulls in a stack of lolly doing one-nighters, mostly in the provinces. 1992 C. T. Williams Time for my Story vi. 131 Phillip Spaulding [could not] forego a one-nighter with Meredith Reade, beloved of his best friend since boyhood. 2000 N.Y. Times 1 June b 9/1 He joined the Ben Young orchestra in 1935, playing one-nighters in the Midwest, and in 1938 he and the band found themselves in Detroit. 2. A person who stays somewhere for a single night. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] sojourner14.. surgyon14.. sojournerc1460 sojourantc1475 sojournant1477 perhendinancer1489 lodger1511 indweller1535 transient1740 visitant1751 perendinant1886 one-nighter1923 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter iii. 62 The people of the house follow a sort of ‘sheep and goat’ plan, keeping us separate; we, the maiden-lady-some-stay visitors, sit at the upper end of the table, the one-nighters at the other end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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