(baseball) A game in which every batter on one team is retired without reaching base. / (bowling) A game in which the highest score possible is achieved, entailing a strike in every frame.

Poetry written for public performance rather than private reading.

(music, uncountable) The ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch.

present participle of perform

A performance.

(informal, humorous) Perfect, excellent, brilliant.

A large, tapered cigar. / (sports) In baseball or bowling, a perfect game.

Someone who is unwilling to settle for anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.

Demanding perfection; being a perfectionist; imposing overly high standards. / (philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.

In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.