sitting duck

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   a defenseless victim

   Synonymseasy mark

   Broadervictim

Questions about sitting duck

What does sitting duck mean?

sitting duck means "a defenseless victim".

What is another word for sitting duck?

Close synonyms include easy mark. 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 sitting duck a common word?

sitting duck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.