one-tap

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one-tap

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A reference to first-person shooter games in which a gun is fired by "tapping" the left click button on a mouse.

verb one-taps · one-tapping · one-tapped

slang, transitive To kill (an enemy) in one shot. This guy is camping so hard that I can barely move off of spawn before getting one-tapped.
Similar: one-hit, instakill

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@misc{one_tap_2026,
  title = {one-tap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/one-tap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}