ten-strike
- n a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer.
- It is seven long years since Soprano MacDonald and Baritone Eddy made a ten-strike with Victor Herbert's sure-fire romantic operetta, Naughty Marietta.
- The Governor saw the chance for a political ten-strike and he took it.