one-two

[ wuhn-too ]

/ ˈwʌnˈtu /

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noun

Also called one-two punch .Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.

Informal. any strong or effective combination of two people or things: The old one-two of a good passer and a good receiver is the best way to win football games.

Fencing. a type of attack made up of two movements.

adjective

employing or suggesting a one-two; with one major or powerful thing or person combined with or following another.

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Origin of one-two

First recorded in 1800–10

Words nearby one-two

one-to-one, one-track, one-track mind, one-trick pony, Onetti, one-two, one up, one-upmanship, one-way, one-way mirror, one way or another

How to use one-two in a sentence

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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British Dictionary definitions for one-two

one-two

noun

boxing a jab with the leading hand followed by a cross with the other hand

soccer another term for wall pass

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one-two

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