noun
1. in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target (Freq. 13)
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in repeated sets of five shots his numbers of bull's-eyes varied
• Hypernyms: ↑score
2. the center of a target (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑bull
3. something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal (Freq. 1)
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the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer
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scored a bull's eye
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hit the mark
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the president's speech was a home run
• Syn: ↑bell ringer, ↑mark, ↑home run
• Usage Domain: ↑trope, ↑figure of speech, ↑figure, ↑image
• Hypernyms: ↑success
Useful english dictionary. 2012.