ONE SHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one shot mean? 

• ONE SHOT (noun)
  The noun ONE SHOT has 1 sense:

1. a charge of ammunition for a single shot

  Familiarity information: ONE SHOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE SHOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A charge of ammunition for a single shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

one shot; round; unit of ammunition

Hypernyms ("one shot" is a kind of...):

ammo; ammunition (projectiles to be fired from a gun)

 Context examples 

That there should have been only one shot showed that it had been all over in an instant.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huntsman took up his bow, and at one shot struck all the five eggs as his father wished.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the father took the eggs, and put one on each corner of the table, and the fifth in the middle, and said to the huntsman, “Cut all the eggs in two pieces at one shot.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)