Definitions for ten-strike

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Spelling: [ten-strahyk]
IPA: /ˈtɛnˌstraɪk/

Ten-Strike is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 370 anagrams from letters in ten-strike (-eeiknrstt).

Definitions for ten-strike

noun

  1. Tenpins. a strike.
  2. Informal. any stroke or act that is completely successful.

Origin of ten-strike

First recorded in 1830-40

Examples for ten-strike

They met as usual the amused inquiries of the Passonians regarding the ten-strike they had been expected to make.

The rest, Kennicott hinted, she'd better leave till he "made a ten-strike."

Judging from the effect upon her and the publisher, I may calculate on what bowlers call a ten-strike.

My eagles, however, will fold their wings and take a rest, but we'll flap 'em and scream every time you make a ten-strike.

Say, Cap., you've made a ten-strike today that ought to make you a Major.

Now and then one of them got a ten-strike, but the occurrence was so rare that it made no show alongside of my giant score.

She had made, as Gilmore said to his wife behind the curtain, a "ten-strike."

“Billy had made a ten-strike in the West,” he remarked to his wife.

I thought he did make a ten-strike once, but that the slide twenty years ago knocked his claim into a cocked-hat?

They have no ninepins, so they are not trying to make a ten-strike.

Word Value for ten-strike
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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