one-and-one

1. 1.

   a foul shot that must be made in order to earn the right to a second foul shot

   Broaderfoul shot

Questions about one-and-one

What does one-and-one mean?

one-and-one means "a foul shot that must be made in order to earn the right to a second foul shot".

How many syllables are in one-and-one?

one-and-one has 4 syllables and divides as o-ne--an-d-one under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is one-and-one a common word?

one-and-one is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.