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Definition of Easy mark
1. Noun. A defenseless victim.
Definition of Easy mark
1. Noun. someone who is easily fooled or victimised ¹
2. Noun. an easy target ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Easy Mark
Literary usage of Easy mark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"The white hunter of course employs his rifle and finds that the huge animal
affords no easy mark, as unless it is hit in a mortal spot it dives below the ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1815)
"... by a change of type :— ' That easy mark, which asks but vulgar eyes, ...
and renown ^"' The Power of Wisdom, shew her by her dress, That easy mark, ..."
3. Analyzing Character, the New Science of Judging Men: Misfits in Business by Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb (1916)
"THE easy mark When the person to be persuaded is indecisive and also has large,
wide-open, credulous eyes; a hopeful, optimistic, turned- up nose, ..."
4. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"The fighting led the preditors to believe that I wasn't an easy mark and there
was easier prey to attack. I wish my tale ended there but it doesn't. ..."
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