one-hitter
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]one-hitter (plural one-hitters)
- (slang) A cannabis pipe for a single inhalation.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 49:
- A one-hitter, sort of like a long FDR-type cigarette holder whose end is packed with a pinch of good dope, gets hot and is hard on the mouth—the brass ones especially—but one-hitters have the advantage of efficiency […]
- (baseball) A game in which one team makes only one hit.
- Coordinate term: no-hitter
- 2021 August 11, John Perrotto, “Wainwright pitches two-hit shutout, Cards top Pirates 4-0”, in The Seattle Times[1]:
- The one-hitter Tuesday night marked the first time the Cardinals held the Pirates to one hit or less in a game in Pittsburgh since Hall of Famer Bob Gibson’s no-hitter in 1971 at Three Rivers Stadium.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “one-hitter n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present