What's on your mug?

The police.

Criminal #1: Oh shit it’s the one time, play it cool… Criminal #2: Playing it cool, playing it cool… So why are they called the one time anyway? Criminal #1: Because they only need to catch you one time fool!

By B. Kizzle

Do you know when people are in jail when they're telling the stories of how they got arrested the first thing that they say is one time I was chilling with the homies and the popo's just pulled up on me and swooped everybody up. Every time they tell a story about when they got arrested or when they ran in with the cops they say one time, so when they see a cop they remember hey that's a one time story.

Hey dogg I'm going to tell you like this , one time I was chilling in the cut, slanging all that dope, A lot of cluccs and strawberries and the one tezzies came through with swat and hemmed us all up, had to do a mandatory 7 years down. Now I'm out and the one times ain't got Nathan on me. Let's go re-up lōc!

By Mobrelated

The police. Contrary to a popularly accepted best guess, this North American black / hip-hop slang term did not derive from the idea that one should only look once and not double-take at the police (arousing suspicion). Instead, it derives from the first few words of personal anecdotes involving the police, often shared while socializing at BBQs etc: "One Time, I was just comin out the Korean store, and the five-oh seen me..." It became a fun slang device to simply refer to police encounters as "one times," as in "that was close! we almost had a one time." which simply evolved into calling the police "one time." This was very early 90s and only really persists among fans of rap produced in that era.

nigga yo ass bess get yo shit up out here nigga! one time straight flossin this hood f' yo ass. and that's only real, on my life nigga.

By THYLTH

South African slang term. An exclamation expressing approval

"Let's hit the beach" "One time!"

By Ash

1. (1x) ONE TIME, WHEN U SEE A COP CAR COMIN 2. IF U ONLY DID SUM'TN ONCE OR U CAN ONLY DO ONCE 3."ONE TIME..." RECALLIN BACK 2 A PARTICULAR DAY

1."AYO, ONE TIME IS CUM'N UP DA BLOCK." OR SIMPLY, "ONE TIME" FOR 2 "2'xs" FOR 3 "3x's" NE THING AFTTER DAT, UR TOTALLY AN ASS FOR STAYIN THERE 2. "THIS IS A ONE TIME DEAL." 3. "ONE TIME, I FELL GETTING OFF OF THE SCHOOL BUS."

By MYSGEE