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mark

n. a dupe; a victim selected for a theft or a swindle. (Underworld.) I bumped the mark on the shoulder, and he put his hand on his wallet just like always.

See:

• a black mark
• a question mark over
• be close to the mark
• be easy meat
• be off the mark
• be quick off the mark
• be slow off the mark
• be up to the mark
• be wide of the mark
• beauty mark
• beside the mark
• beside the point
• black mark
• black mark beside name
• easy mark
• full marks
• get off the mark
• give bad marks to
• high-water mark
• hit the bull's-eye
• hit the mark
• leave its mark on
• leave mark
• leave mark on
• make a mark
• make mark
• make one's mark
• mark
• mark as
• mark down
• mark for life
• mark in
• mark my word
• mark my words
• mark off
• mark out
• mark time
• mark up
• mark with
• miss the mark
• not up to the mark
• off the mark
• on the mark
• on your mark, get set, go
• overshoot the mark
• overstep (one's)/its mark
• overstep the mark
• question mark
• question mark over
• quick off the mark
• skid marks
• slow off the mark
• spot on the mark
• toe the line
• toe the mark
• up to par
• up to the mark
• wide of the mark
• X marks the spot