ten-strike
English
Noun
ten-strike (plural ten-strikes)
- (bowling) A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.
- (US, informal) Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ten-strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)