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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-two
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a one-two punch
▪ The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
▪ And heart disease took a one-two punch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it's all over.
▪ The arts center was defeated by a one-two punch: loss of funding and a steep hike in rents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sweeping attack peaked when Greenwood played a one-two with Healey before pounding in for his hat-trick.
▪ Five minutes later he worked a one-two with Jeffers before missing the target again.
▪ Four minutes later Bo Hansen, released after a one-two with Farrelly, scuffed his shot.
▪ It maximized my chances for making solid contact by starting with the tough ones and ending with the one-two.
▪ It was a memorable moment for the team, the third successive one-two achieved at the Circuit de Catalunya by the partnership.
Wiktionary
one-two

n. (context soccer English) A quick one-touch play between two players.

Wikipedia
One-two

One-two, 1-2, 1 & 2 or 1+2 may refer to:

  • Schweizer SGU 1-2 glider

Usage examples of "one-two".

Big Buddy and sort of lob-and-Eschaton-mentor and genuinely likes the kid, dropped his gear and gave him a sort of male-affectionate fake one-two punch like Think Fast.

An illusionists act should tell a story, all the tricks linked together, one leading to the next with one or more of the earlier tricks returning at the end to give the audience that delightful one-two punch that left them, she hoped, breathless.

The young dabbawalla skipped nimbly through the shadow-crowd, because he was used to such conditions, think, Spoono, picture, thirty-forty tiffins in a long wooden tray on your head, and when the local train stops you have maybe one minute to push on or off, and then running in the streets, flat out, yaar, with the trucks buses scooters cycles and what-all, one-two, one-two, lunch, lunch, the dabbas must get through, and in the monsoon running down the railway line when the train broke down, or waist-deep in water in some flooded street, and there were gangs, Salad baba, truly, organized gangs of dabba-stealers, it's a hungry city, baby, what to tell you, but we could handle them, we were everywhere, knew everything, what thieves could escape our eyes and ears, we never went to any policia, we looked after our own.

Not like the other one-two private-school kids out drag racing on Memorial, stoned to the gills.

I fire through the berm again, in a one-two punch that turns a second mobile Hellbore and its driver into a cloud of dissociated atoms.

They swung past him, their speed a blur, aimed at Remo's head like a boxer's one-two punch.

She spun again for a second kick, then came up straight and landed a one-two punch on the lurching troll’.

It's the old Illuminati one-two punch- two attacks from different directions.

The plane brought in the first contingent as part of a one-two punch.

She spun again for a second kick, then came up straight and landed a one-two punch on the lurching troll's jaw.

A sex scandal would have been a one-two punch from which Sexton's career never would have recovered&hellip.

The boys delivered a couple of stiff one-two punches before they went down in a melee of arms and legs.

Miles wondered what it would be like, to be in such practiced teamwork with someone that it was as though you coordinated your one-two punches telepathically.

Drizzt scolded, snapping the flat sides of his scimitars out, one-two, against the sides of Wulfgar's face.