bull's eye

1. 1.

   in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target

   “in repeated sets of five shots his numbers of bull's-eyes varied”

   Broaderscore
2. 2.

   the center of a target

   Synonymsbull

   Broadercenter

   Part oftarget
3. 3.

   something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal

   “the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer”

   “scored a bull's eye”

   “hit the mark”

   “the president's speech was a home run”

   Synonymsbell ringermarkhome run

   Broadersuccess

   trope

Questions about bull's eye

What does bull's eye mean?

bull's eye means "in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bull's eye?

Close synonyms include bull, bell ringer, mark, home run. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bull's eye a common word?

bull's eye is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.