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one-shot, a. and n.
[one numeral a. 34 a.]
A. adj. Achieved or done with a single shot, stroke, attempt, etc.; consisting of a single shot or try; occurring, performed, produced, used, etc., only once; single, isolated.
1907Westm. Gaz. 28 Mar. 9/1 The one-shot hole..gives good play its just reward... A hole which can just, and only just, be reached from the tee by a fine driver is, therefore, an excellent hole. 1927Sunday Pictorial 28 Aug. 8/4 This includes such up-to-date owner-driver features as..one-shot oiling for all other chassis points. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 31 May 8/2 For this he asked a force in being fully equipped and trained. He called this ‘a stop-gap, one-shot army, a plug in the dike until we rallied sufficient and effective reserves’. 1950N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 3/6 A ‘one-shot’ insecticide system that operates when the pilot pushes a button. 1953Pohl & Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) ii. 16 Fowler Schocken was too big for one-shot accounts. What we wanted was the year-after-year reliability of a major industrial complex. 1954K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) 29 The latter method is of chief interest for ‘one-shot’ rockets as the target plate burns away during running unless low specific impulse propellants are used. 1959E. Fenwick Long Way Down xx. 155 It was hard to get anybody for a one-shot cleaning job. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 43 A ‘one-shot’ technique was used, i.e. the whole programme was taken as a continuous sequence. Ibid. xiii. 232 It is essential that the basic ‘message’ of a piece should be understood in a single hearing—for sound is basically a ‘one-shot’ medium. 1966Listener 18 Aug. 234/1 Not enough one-shot original plays are presented on television. 1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xvii. 163 If it had been a one-shot thing, we might have been able to do it that way... But we couldn't afford any sort of mistake. 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) xvi. 251 We were pitting our one-shot plan against a normal company's normal routine. 1978Guardian Weekly 7 May 15/4 Copper produces 90 per cent of Zambia's foreign exchange, and the percentage is also high for the other producing countries that have what some economists call ‘one-shot economies’.
B. n. An event, transaction, process, etc., that occurs only once; something that is used or intended for use only once; esp. a single appearance by a performer, production of a play, etc.; a story or article that has no sequel. Also one-shotter. orig. U.S.
1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 40/1 One shot, a single program which is not one of a series. 1942H. Haycraft Murder for Pleasure xi. 267 Some..magazine editors have been experimenting with novelette-length condensations (‘one-shots’ as they are called in the trade). 1943Sat. Even. Post 20 Nov. 28/3 A one shot..is usually a charity event sponsored by a political or social organization with no professional knowledge of selling tickets. 1947Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VI. 113 The application for which a motor is designed also has a profound effect on its design. The major variables are, magnitude and duration of thrust; fixed or variable thrust; whether for repeated use or a ‘one-shot’, and in the former case its total operating life. 1967A. Arent Gravedigger's Funeral (1968) iv. 44 What was it going to be? A brush-off? A friendly hint that this was just a one-shotter? 1967Wodehouse Company for Henry ix. 172 He..has actually sold it [sc. the book] as what he calls a one-shotter to a magazine. 1972M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha iii. 137 ‘But you'd give her my money?’ ‘Sure, because you're a one-shot. I'd never have any peace if the bread came from me.’ |