Definition of "bull's-eye" [bull's•-eye]

• The small central circle on a target. (noun)
• A shot that hits this circle. (noun)
• A direct hit: scored a bull's-eye on the window with a snowball. (noun)
• The precise accomplishment of a goal or purpose: "With his overflowing style, [he] almost always hits the bull's-eye of universality” ( William Zimmer). (noun)
• A thick, circular piece of glass set, as in a roof or ship's deck, to admit light. (noun)

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• "Rep. Bob Brady D-Pa. is planning to introduce a bill banning bull's-eye and crosshairs images."
• "Whenever I read those stories, I think of George Foreman's contention that the rope-a-dope was never a strategy at all, that Muhammad Ali had fired an arrow into a barn and then walked over afterward and painted a bull's-eye around it."
• "Rain, and quite a lot of it, drew a bull's-eye on the Washington region with the same ferocity as last winter's relentless blizzards."