单词 | one-shotter |
释义 | one-shottern. Originally U.S. 1. Golf. A hole of which the green can be reached with a single drive or shot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hole for ball hole1808–18 dogleg hole1909 dogleg1911 one-shotter1922 1922 Times 5 Dec. (N. Ireland Suppl.) p. xv/3 The fourteenth is another very difficult..one-shotter. 1959 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Apr. 18/3 Medinah in 1949 instituted changes which lengthened its 17th hole, a one-shotter over water, into one billed as ‘the toughest hole in the world.’ 1992 Golf Monthly May 86/1 There's a splendid quartet of one-shotters, the two on the back close to 200 yards, and the highlight for most is the par-4, 5th hole, a right-angled dog-leg over two burns to a raised green with out-of-bounds right. 2002 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 1 May 8 There's room to bail out on both sides of this longish one-shotter. A prevailing left-to-right wind makes it even tougher to hit the green with a long iron. 2. An event which occurs only once or rarely; (also, now chiefly Law) a person who litigates once or only rarely, as opposed to a company, etc., regularly involved in litigation. Cf. repeat player s.v. repeat n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [noun] > thing which occurs only once oncer1892 one-shot1937 once-off1965 one-shotter1967 1967 A. 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? 1974 Law & Soc. Rev. 9 97 Those claimants who have only occasional recourse to the courts (one-shotters or OS). 1994 P. McCormick Canada's Courts x. 154 Those [citizens] who utilize the courts only rarely, he called ‘one-shotters’. 2002 Presidential Stud. Q. (Nexis) 32 509 Repeat players play the litigation game differently from one-shotters because of the advantages they have over those who have occasional use of the courts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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