one-pump

English

Verb

one-pump (third-person singular simple present one-pumps, present participle one-pumping, simple past and past participle one-pumped)

1. (transitive, video games, slang, Fortnite) To kill someone in one shot with a pump action shotgun.
   • 2018 May 14, Jimmy Donnellan, “Fortnite Season 4 Drags The Focus Away From Tilted Towers”, in Cultured Vultures‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-11-02:

     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.

   • 2020 March 6, Scott Duwe, “Tfue sounds off against skill-based matchmaking in Fortnite”, in Dot Esports‎^[2], archived from the original on 2022-07-04:

     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 16, Jacob Hale, “Did Fortnite secretly change Pump Shotguns in Season 2?”, in Dexerto‎^[3], archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

     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 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-05-21:

     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.]

   • 2022 June 29, Zachary Roberts, “Fortnite meets Subway Surfer in the weirdest viral video”, in Sportskeeda‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-03-20:

     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.

Hypernyms

• one-tap

 

Noun

one-pump (plural one-pumps)

1. (video games, slang, Fortnite) An instance of one-pumping.
   • 2018 June 6, Austen Goslin, “Fortnite's shotguns are getting a major nerf”, in Polygon‎^[6], archived from the original on 2023-02-01, byline:

     No more one-pumps

   • [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:

     How can you spot a Fortniter at Starbucks? / They order everything with one pump.]

   • 2022 May 3, shwetangparthsarthy, “After sniper rifles, Fortnite nerf ruins every shotgun in the game”, in Sportskeeda‎^[7], archived from the original on 2022-05-25:

     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.

   • 2023 April 11, Claire Jackson, “(headline)”, in Kotaku‎^[8], archived from the original on 2023-05-04:

     Fortnite Stops The 'One Pump' Shotgun, Unvaults Dirt Bikes