oneshot

See also: one shot and one-shot

English

Verb

oneshot (third-person singular simple present oneshots, present participle oneshotting, simple past and past participle oneshotted)

  1. (video games, slang) To kill or destroy with a single hit; to instakill.
    Synonyms: one-hit kill, OHK, one-tap
    • 2022 July 18, u/CrystalizedSeraphine, “Pantheon PBE buff: Q monster damage increased from 70% to 120%”, in Reddit‎[1], r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 18 October 2025:
      Can't wait for people to say "Finally, he is basically designed to be a jungler with his W and R anyways" followed by "Pantheon jng is so toxic and uninteractive with global ganks and point and click stun while oneshotting me and being immune to damage, 200 years rito".
  2. (Internet slang) To rapidly overwhelm and gain influence over (someone).
    • 2025 January 18, @venturetwins, Twitter‎[2], archived from the original on 20 March 2025:
      The CIA couldn't have dreamed up a oneshotting as effective as sending thousands of American girls to RedNote
    • 2025 July 26, @hradzka, Twitter‎[3], archived from the original on 27 July 2025:
      who would win: hard righties' aversion to race-mixing, or a mild-mannered actress/model from Hokkaido whose pic is currently oneshotting dudes like she's an ayahuasca trip
    • 2025 August 31, @SavosAndSavos, Twitter‎[4], archived from the original on 18 October 2025:
      Furry is a dangerous thing because you either find a group of friends who are well-adjusted and generally beneficial to your life as a whole or you get socially oneshotted by creeps and become an evil sex pervert forever
    • 2025 October 6, u/BadgerInABun, “The Daily Moby - 06 10 2025 - The News Megathread”, in Reddit‎[5], r/badunitedkingdom, archived from the original on 18 October 2025:
      This whole thread is a goldmine of women who have been oneshotted by parasocial relationships. Yap hands in abundance.
  3. (Internet slang, especially of genAI) To successfully complete a task in a single try.
    • 2025 September 8, @rauchg, Twitter‎[6], archived from the original on 18 October 2025:
      Demo oneshotting a multiplayer Pong in Go ↓
    • 2025 September 17, u/MachinationMachine, “TheInformation - OpenAI's Models Are Getting Too Smart For Their Human Teachers”, in Reddit‎[7], r/singularity, archived from the original on 18 October 2025:
      It's one thing for an AI to oneshot a 2D Javascript game like a frogger or tetris clone, it's another for an AI to do all of the work that goes into designing and making a full scale indie RPG or more complex game on the scale of Stardew Valley or Rimworld, or even a decent visual novel.

Translations

Adjective

oneshot (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of one-shot.
    • 2012, Yehuda Gradus, Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands, →ISBN, page 18:
      Thus, to generalise wildly for much larger regions on the basis of oneshot research is, to put it mildly, quite foolhardy.
    • 2012, V. Rittberger, Evolution and International Organization, →ISBN:
      Alger refrains from making explicit evaluations of the stat of the discipline, but his summary of major findings culled from the surveyed publications clearly demonstrates the low level of theoretical achievement: Unrelated oneshot generalizations and bivariate propositions abound, but little effort is spent on pin-pointing their theoretical relevance.

Noun

oneshot (plural oneshots)

  1. Alternative form of one-shot.
    • 1942, Paul Henry Cassidy, An Approach to the Profession of the Comic Strip Cartooning Based Upon an Analytical Survey of Current Trends and Personal Experiences:
      We supply occasional suggestions, write continuities, or put in backgrounds, when he is crowded with work, which sometimes occurs when oneshots coincide with regular deadlines
    • 1965, Legislative Record, page 578:
      It is well-known that we cannot carry this surplus over. Therefore, he is giving these oneshots to some of these institutions. Now why does he not give the public a break?
    • 1971, R.E. Davis, R.B. Kenyon, “Registration of operant responses in fish”, in Mental Health Research Institute Staff Publications - Part 1:
      The maximum response frequency of the Gibbs is limited with a oneshot to block the registration of postresponse contact bounces or "false responses," which would otherwise inflate the response rate. In investigations with 7- to 12-cm goldfish, for example, we set the response oneshot at 400 msec.
    • 1977, Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools for the Professional Programmer, →ISBN:
      This kit is complete with its own 80v power supply, features onboard timing independent of the CPU clocks and contains its own microprogram for read and write control. No oneshots are used.
    • 1995, Topps Comics, The X-Files Collection, page 1:
      Do you find that you prefer oneshots or multi-parters?
    • 2008, Buster Fayte, The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit, →ISBN:
      On the other hand, think of a cymbal crash recorded alone. Or a snare hit. If you repeated those over and over, it'd be nothing but annoying! So developers put these types of sounds into oneshot files. You can think of oneshots as building blocks.

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