a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
2.
a single appearance by a performer, as in a play, motion picture, or television program.
3.
a close-up camera shot of one person.
4.
something occurring, done, used, etc., only once.
adjective
5.
occurring, done, etc., only once.
6.
achieved or accomplished with a single try:
a one-shot solution.
Origin
1905-10
Examples from the web for one-shot
Under current practice, some guarantors consider such borrowers to have used up the one-shot chance.
We were not simply here to write a one-shot manifesto.
Word Origin and History for one-shot
adj.
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.
Slang definitions & phrases for one-shot
one-shot
modifier
: He put her in a one-shot whodunit/ Maybe it was a one-shot shakedown
noun
A story or article that appears once, with no sequel (1942+)
Any transaction, event, etc, that occurs only once; one-off: He was doing poetry readings, one-shots(1937+)
A woman who accedes to the sex act once, then refuses repetitions (1950+)