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one-and-ones

one-and-ones is the plural of one-and-one.

Meaning of one-and-one

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
  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

Questions about one-and-ones

What is one-and-ones the plural of?
One-and-ones is the plural of one-and-one.

Words near one-and-ones in the dictionary

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

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