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one-and-one

one-and-one noun: a double foul shot, where the first shot must succeed in order to get the second shot.

Noun

one-and-one (plural one-and-ones)

  1. A double foul shot, where the first shot must succeed in order to get the second shot.
    • State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN
    • Twice we got fouled and missed the front end of one-and-ones that could have pretty much cinched it for us.2011, Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers, Jim Nantz, Clyde the Glide: My Life in Basketball, →ISBN, page 99
  2. A contract in which the player signs on for one year with an option to stay for a second year.
    • If Durant signed a one-and-one and then signed a five-year max next summer, he'd make over $235 million over the next six years. If he signed a one-and-one and then signed a four-year max using those Non-Bird Rights, he'd make a little over $168 million over the next five years.2016 June 6, Jake Whitacre, “Why a one-and-one contract wouldn't work for Kevin Durant in Washington”, in SB Nation
    • For financial and competitive reasons, Durant’s best move is to stay in Oklahoma City. With the cap jumping $20 million this summer and another $15 million in 2017, Durant can make an extra $40 million by signing a one-and-one contract with the Thunder in July, then opt out and sign a long-term...2016 May 31, “Which teams have the best odds to sign Kevin Durant?”, in Comcast SportsNet Chicago

Forms of one-and-one

pluralone-and-ones

Questions about one-and-one

What does one-and-one mean?
One-and-one means a double foul shot, where the first shot must succeed in order to get the second shot.
What part of speech is one-and-one?
One-and-one is a noun.
What is the plural of one-and-one?
The plural of one-and-one is one-and-ones.

Words near one-and-one in the dictionary

  1. one-acters
  2. one-ahead
  3. one-and-a-half-spaced
  4. one-and-done
  5. one-and-dones
  6. one-and-one
  7. one-and-ones
  8. one-and-twenty
  9. one-arm bandit
  10. one-arm bandits
  11. one-arm joint

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