one-hitter

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Noun

one-hitter (plural one-hitters)

  1. (slang) A cannabis pipe for a single inhalation.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 49:
      A one-hitter, sort of like a long FDR-type cigarette holder whose end is packed with a pinch of good dope, gets hot and is hard on the mouth—the brass ones especially—but one-hitters have the advantage of efficiency []
  2. (baseball) A game in which one team makes only one hit.
    Coordinate term: no-hitter
    • 2021 August 11, John Perrotto, “Wainwright pitches two-hit shutout, Cards top Pirates 4-0”, in The Seattle Times:
      The one-hitter Tuesday night marked the first time the Cardinals held the Pirates to one hit or less in a game in Pittsburgh since Hall of Famer Bob Gibson’s no-hitter in 1971 at Three Rivers Stadium.

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