mark
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8.8
- noun
- /mɑrk/
- Offensive
- Can't run a con without gaining the mark's trust first, that's page one.
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Watch on YouTubeCriminals who are just hanging out and looking for marks.
- Criminals who are just hanging out and looking for marks.
- The isolation game starts early, when the narcissistic person has found their mark and they don't want other people to mess up their game.
- This might explain why EA was such an easy mark for crypto.
Examples
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Once they found their marks, they would approach the men and pose as wholesome tourists in search of company.
Academic text (2018) -
This might explain why EA was such an easy mark for crypto.
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I know exactly who the first mark is going to be.
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Who was the mark, V?
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You send me ten thousand dollars, like I'm some mark you can blow off!
Fiction book (1990) -
And they saw that he would be an easy mark and they were coveting that particular oil deposit.
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And that's what makes us such easy marks for the bad guys.
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The isolation game starts early, when the narcissistic person has found their mark and they don't want other people to mess up their game.
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Cecilia Pederson, Parker Sears, you've each been working a grift, playing a role, working together, continuing to play out your scam, never realizing that you have been the marks all night long.
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Con artists often target the rich as their ideal mark to exploit and deceive.
Synonyms
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1.4
A person who makes poor decisions and is easily tricked
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked
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8.3
A person who is easily tricked or treated unfairly
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8.6
A person who is easily tricked and blamed by others
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked into believing false things
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7.1
A person others can easily trick or cheat
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8.2
A person who is easily tricked or cheated
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9.3
A person who is easily tricked or cheated
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7.0
A person who easily agrees and can be taken advantage of
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9.9
A person who trusts others and falls for tricks easily
Idioms
- Informal
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4.1
To get noticed for your work in an area, for example in art or business
Compounds
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1.1
Small signs in writing used to show the exact words someone said or a short title like a song
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1.1
A mark at the end of a sentence that shows strong feeling or a loud command
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4.5
A short New Testament book that tells about Jesus's life and teachings
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A mark placed above or below a letter to show which syllable is strong and how to say it
- Specialized
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A small sign written on a letter to show how to say it or to change its meaning
- Specialized
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9.8
A small groove or dent left by repeated movement, like a glacier scraping rock
- Archaic
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9.9
A government paper that lets a private ship owner capture enemy ships and goods during war
- Specialized
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5.8
A small sign above a syllable that shows which part to say more strongly
- Specialized
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9.9
A painted line on the side of a ship that shows how high it can be safely loaded
- Specialized
A mark on the ground that shows the exact direction from a survey station to true North
A way to write text that tells a web page how to look and where links go
How Gullible
Surface Forms
Etymology
A mark meaning a person who is easily cheated is like a target that con artists choose, so a 'mark' is someone singled out as the object of a trick.