one-track

[ wuhn-trak ]

adjective
  1. having only one track.

  2. unable or unwilling to cope with more than one idea, action, etc., at a time; narrow: a one-track mind.

Origin of one-track

1
First recorded in 1925–30

Words Nearby one-track

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How to use one-track in a sentence

  • Once his one-track mind got to functioning on a certain objective it seldom digressed.

  • "Thank God that thing had a one-track mind, and was concentrating on the spider," said Jim, with a rather humorless laugh.

  • You certainly see the other side of the famous one-track mind of Japan over here, as well as of other things.

  • We parted with mutual benedictions, and John Maxwell and I walked away, toward the one-track road leading to the old mansion.

    The Telenizer | Don Thompson
  • I must have journeyed on at least three small, one-track railroads after leaving the Pullman at some junction or other.

British Dictionary definitions for one-track

one-track

adjective
  1. informal obsessed with one idea, subject, etc

  2. having or consisting of a single track

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