bullseye
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- 2A shot that hits the very middle of a target.
Her first arrow was a bullseye.
Tom got two bullseyes in a row at the fair.
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- 4Shouted when someone hits the very middle of a target.
Dad threw his last dart, hit the very middle of the board, and shouted, "Bullseye!"
In this video game, a voice calls out "Bullseye!" every time you hit the center of the target.
- 5The two rings in the middle of a dartboard.
Her dart hit the bullseye, right in the middle of the board.
Ben threw all three darts, but none landed in the bullseye.
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- 6A hard candy with stripes that tastes of peppermint.
Grandma keeps a jar of bullseyes on the kitchen counter.
I sucked on a minty bullseye all the way home.
- 7A slice of bread with a hole in the middle and an egg cooked in it.
Dad cut a hole in my toast and made me a bullseye for breakfast.
I like my bullseye with a soft yolk in the middle.
- 8A curved glass that makes a lamp's light strong enough to use as a signal, or the lamp itself.
The guard held up his bullseye, and a bright circle of light fell on the gate.
The lighthouse keeper cleaned the bullseye in front of the lamp every evening.
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- 9A place everyone knows, used as a starting point to say where something is.
The pilots used a big lake as their bullseye during the training flight.
The leader said the enemy trucks were two miles east of the bullseye.
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- 10A round window or round opening in the wall or roof of a building.
The church has a bullseye high above its front door.
Light came into the attic through a small bullseye in the roof.
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- 11The middle part of a round sheet of crown glass, which has rings like ripples.
You can see rings like ripples in the bullseye of this old glass.
Everything looks wavy when you look through the bullseye in the old shop window.
- 12The small mark left on blown glass where a metal rod held it while it was being made.
There is a rough bullseye on the bottom of this glass cup.
She ran her finger over the bullseye under the vase.
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- 13A British banknote worth fifty pounds.
Can you lend me a bullseye until Friday?
The shop would not take his bullseye because it was too big a note.
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- 14A mark a post office worker stamps by hand, often on a receipt to show that you mailed something.
I asked the clerk for a bullseye on my receipt so I can show I sent the letter.
The bullseye on the slip shows the day she mailed the package.
- 15One of the first postage stamps made in Brazil, starting in 1843.
My grandpa keeps his bullseye from Brazil in a small plastic sleeve.
The stamp show has three Brazilian bullseyes on display.
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- 16A piece of thick glass in the side of a ship that lets light inside.
A little light came in through the bullseye next to his bed on the ship.
The sailors cleaned the salt off the bullseyes in the ship's side.
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- 17An old British coin called a crown, worth five shillings, or that amount of money.
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Origin
From bull's and eye. It may come from English archers shooting an arrow through the eye hole of a bull's skull to show their skill.