Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sports A strike in bowling.
- noun Informal A remarkably successful stroke or act.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In American-bowling, a stroke which knocks down all the ten pins; hence, figuratively, a stroke or act of any kind which is entirely successful or decisive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Tenpins), United States A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
- noun Colloq. U. S. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strike ; the knocking down of all tenpins with onedelivery of theball - noun US, informal Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
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Examples
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But it was when Daughtry and Michael first sang "Roll me Down to Rio" together, that the ten-strike was made.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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At his lowest ebb, when his black suit was in pawn, he made a ten-strike - or so it seemed to him — in a prize contest arranged by the County
Chapter 29 2010
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“I felt it would have been a ten-strike had we been able to get him.”
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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GREENFIELD: That appeal was a ten-strike, hitting directly at the block Nixon most coveted: traditional blue collar Democrats for whom patriotism was a powerful political motivator.
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Twain said in a letter to his friend William Dean Howells, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, that Orion "wrote me jubilantly of what a ten-strike he was going to make with that speech."
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“If we can take him away from the Soviets, that would be a ten-strike,” I replied.3
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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“This Nicaragua event is a ten-strike,” I told him.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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“This Nicaragua event is a ten-strike,” I told him.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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“If we can take him away from the Soviets, that would be a ten-strike,” I replied.3
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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While such appeals occasionally make a ten-strike, the average correspondent must rely upon logic and "reasons why" in making his appeal to men.
Business Correspondence Anonymous
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