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one-er

one-er is the alternative form of oner.

Meaning of oner

Noun

oner (plural oners)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) An extraordinary individual or thing.
    Synonyms:
    one of a kind
  2. A small marble of little worth in children's games.
    • The winner was the last to flick a marble into the gully. A oner had to beat a fourer four times to win, a fourer had to beat a twelver three times, and so on.2012, Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest, page 143
  3. (UK) A conker that has won one match.
    • May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours1993, Henry Normal, Nude modelling for the afterlife
  4. Synonym of long take; a long one-take shot, or an equivalent animated segment simulating a one-take shot.

Forms of one-er

pluralone-ers

Phrases with one-er

Questions about one-er

What is one-er the alternative form of?
One-er is the alternative form of oner.

Words near one-er in the dictionary

  1. one-drop
  2. one-drop rule
  3. one-eighth
  4. one-eighties
  5. one-eighty
  6. one-er
  7. one-ers
  8. one-eyed
  9. one-eyed jack
  10. one-eyed jacks
  11. one-eyed king

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one-er (page history and authors); oner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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