one-pump meaning (slang): definition, quotations

one-pump

verb

Video games Slang To kill someone in one shot with a pump action shotgun.

The arrival of season 4 also saw the arrival of the much prophesied comets to coincide with the superhero theme, which ultimately meant just different skins to wear while a young child one-pumps you.2018 May 14, Jimmy Donnellan, “Fortnite Season 4 Drags The Focus Away From Tilted Towers”, in Cultured Vultures, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
After getting one-pumped by an enemy sitting inside of a build in the top six players of a Solo match, Tfue voiced his ire about skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite—and it was an R-rated display.2020 March 6, Scott Duwe, “Tfue sounds off against skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:

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Pump Shotguns are notoriously fickle weapons to carry. You have the ability to one-pump someone, while also being completely let down by it in the next breath with an unexpectedly weak shot.2020 March 16, Jacob Hale, “Did Fortnite secretly change Pump Shotguns in Season 2?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022:
When you get knocked down by a single pump shotgun shot, you'll be one-pumped. It's used to describe that all it took was a single pump shotgun bullet to take out your remaining health points.[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 21 May 2023:
In the video, the policeman starts building and cranking 90s while editing through and eventually catches up to the player and one pumps them, eliminating them from the match.2022 June 29, Zachary Roberts, “Fortnite meets Subway Surfer in the weirdest viral video”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023:

noun

Video games Slang An instance of one-pumping.

No more one-pumps2018 June 6, Austen Goslin, “Fortnite's shotguns are getting a major nerf”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023, byline:
How can you spot a Fortniter at Starbucks? / They order everything with one pump.[2021, Brian Boone, An Unofficial Joke Book for Fortniters: 800 All-New Explosively Hilarious Jokes for Fans of Fortnite, New York, N.Y: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN:

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Gone are the "one-pump" days as the all-new Fortnite Shotgun nerf has ended up making the weapon class less appealing. Without powerful sniper rifles and shotguns, players could end up stuck in an endless loop of a spray meta that almost everyone dislikes.2022 May 3, shwetangparthsarthy, “After sniper rifles, Fortnite nerf ruins every shotgun in the game”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
Fortnite Stops The 'One Pump' Shotgun, Unvaults Dirt Bikes2023 April 11, Claire Jackson, “(headline)”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 04 May 2023: