sitting duck

Speech parts

1. sitting duck - Noun

2. sitting duck - Phrase

Meaning

a defenseless victim

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

easy mark pigeon patsy target prey scapegoat victim sucker fall guy pushover muggins soft touch easy target

Antonyms

pretender attacker crook impostor bulldozer polisher
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Hypernyms

dupe victim

Examples

It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated. Steve Jobs

City Councilors also went back up memory lane remembering all the dreaming out loud when years ago the Big Creek Dam was built – which today is a sitting duck for a major earthquake – which will fail and send thundering water down stream into the ocean. Source: Internet

If any of the hot, neutral, or ground wires are connected improperly, the computer connected to the outlet is a sitting duck, just waiting for irreparable damage. Source: Internet

Throw in the fact that QB Carson Wentz has regressed exponentially and you have a sitting duck coach, who just so happens to have won a Super Bowl. Source: Internet

We’d be a sitting duck for whoever was after us. Source: Internet

With two months left to serve and a history of asthma, her boyfriend feels like a sitting duck, she told ABC News. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

sitting duck

Close letter words and terms

sitting area Sitting Bull sitting down sitting ducks sitting hen sitting judge