sitting duck

sitting duck

noun

Definition of SITTING DUCK

: an easy or defenseless target

Examples of SITTING DUCK

1. The tourists were sitting ducks for local thieves.
2. <those stupid comments just made him a sitting duck for comedians>

First Known Use of SITTING DUCK

1942

Related to SITTING DUCK

Synonyms: butt, mark, prey, target, victim

Related Words: laughingstock, mockery, pilgarlic; lightning rod; fall guy, goat, scapegoat, whipping boy

Near Antonyms: gossip, gossiper, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, troublemaker; defamer, libeler, libelist, traducer; baiter, heckler, needler, ribber, taunter, tease, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer; derider, insulter, mocker, ridiculer, scoffer, scorner; caricaturist, lampooner, parodist, satirist

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Rhymes with SITTING DUCK

geoduck, Habakkuk, horror-struck, Keokuk, Koyukuk, ladder truck, megabuck, motortruck, nip and tuck, pass the buck, push one's luck