oneshot

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oneshot

verb oneshots · oneshotting · oneshotted

slang To kill or destroy with a single hit; to instakill. 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".
Similar: one-hit kill, OHK, one-tap
Internet To rapidly overwhelm and gain influence over (someone). The CIA couldn't have dreamed up a oneshotting as effective as sending thousands of American girls to RedNote
Internet, especially, of genAI To successfully complete a task in a single try. Demo oneshotting a multiplayer Pong in Go ↓

adjective

alternative, not comparable Alternative form of one-shot Thus, to generalise wildly for much larger regions on the basis of oneshot research is, to put it mildly, quite foolhardy.

noun oneshots

alternative Alternative form of one-shot 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

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verb to kill with a single hit

Español	matar de una
Deutsch	one-shotten
Italiano	oneshottare

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@misc{oneshot_2026,
  title = {oneshot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oneshot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}