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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-shot
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a one-shot/two-goal/three point etc lead (=a lead of a specific amount)
▪ Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As with non-co-operative playing of the one-shot game, the tacitly collusive equilibrium still requires information.
▪ But they are one-shot treatments and so are not subject to the whims of patient compliance with complex drug regimes.
▪ Scientists and administrators bickered over whether this should be a continuing program in ocean-bottom drilling or a one-shot drive to the mantle.
▪ They really trust these silly, one-shot tests more than they trust me!
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one-shot

1907, "achieved in a single attempt" (original reference is to golf), from one + shot (n.). Meaning "happening or of use only once" is from 1937.

Wiktionary
one-shot
  1. 1 Needing only a single attempt to become effective. 2 unique. n. 1 (context television English) A television programme that is not part of a series. 2 (context film English) A cinematographic shot of a person talking to camera; a talking head. 3 (context electronics English) A monostable multivibrator. 4 A type of long-lasting paint. 5 (context music English) A music sample that is played without immediate repetition. 6 (context literature English) A story of only one chapter. v

  2. (context video games English) To kill or destroy with a single shot.

Wikipedia
One-shot (comics)

In the comic book publishing industry, a one-shot is a comic book published as a single, standalone issue, with a self-contained story, and not as part of an ongoing series or miniseries. In the television industry, one-shots sometimes serve as a pilot to field interest in a new series.

Usage examples of "one-shot".

Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.

They were probably also what had convinced Old Conc to gamble his one-way, one-shot flight on this particular extrasolar system.

Unarmed except for his knifeless, one-shot air gun, Banzarro dived outside with the others.

The telomere tabs were one-shot things, right, most people got them in their early twenties.

Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.

But all one-shot changes in either direction are only devices to start the story, which then usually proceeds in a completely timebound fashion.

All the circuitry was breadboarded, lashed together, a complicated one-shot.

All the circuitry was breadboarded, lashed together, a com­plicated one-shot.

This time, with the reduced opportunities out in the burbs, I hadn't rushed at all, and I hadn't found anything, either, not even the occasional one-shot.

Instead of gigantic, costly, ultra-high-tech, one-shot efforts like NASA's Hubble Telescope (crippled by bad optics) or NASA's Galileo (currently crippled by a flaw in its communications antenna) these micro-rovers are cheap, and legion, and everywhere.

The original idea had been to lash together a one-shot coalition and demoralize the local money/politics establishment by winning a major election before the enemy knew what was happening.

He ripped the photograph out of the one-shot camera where it had been lying all night, and looked at it for the first time.

This time the diverted energy was channeled into one-shot X-ray lasers, directing seventy percent of the explosion’s power into a single slender beam of ultrahard radiation.