one-on-one n.
1. (orig. US) a fight between two individuals (as opposed to a gang fight or an unequal competition); thus used of a two-person basketball game.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Current Sl. IV:1. | |
| Won’t Know Till I Get There 85: [W]e changed and went to the park and played two games of one on one. | |
| Corner (1998) 254: Boo thought it was an invitation to a one-on-one, but when he started out the door of the shopping pavillion, he realized that the entire Stricker and Ramsay crew [...] was following him. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Outlaws (ms.) 21: Last day of school we had a big one-on-one right outside the gates. | |
| What They Was 163: Up n coming youngers who can’t win a one-on-one. |
2. see one-and-one n.2