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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
oner (plural oners)
- (informal) An extraordinary individual.
- Synonym: one of a kind
- A small marble of little worth in children's games.
- 2012, Nicholas Hagger, A View of Epping Forest, page 143:
- 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.
- (UK) A conker that has won one match.
- 1993, Henry Normal, Nude modelling for the afterlife:
- May all your conkers be oners / May your love life fail with dishonours
- 2005, Benedict Le Vay, Eccentric Britain, page 32:
- The history of 'oners' becoming 'sixers' through successive victories […]
- 2006, Charles Campion, Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On, page 119:
- Conkers so highly prized that it's a wonder they even manage to hit the ground before being swept away to be pickled or baked and then going on to new careers as 'oners', 'twoers', and so forth.
- (film production) A long one-take shot, or equivalent animated segment simulating a one-take shot