Usually means: Easy target with no escape.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word sitting duck:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sitting duck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sitting duck: Merriam-Webster
  3. sitting duck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sitting duck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sitting duck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sitting duck: Vocabulary.com
  7. sitting duck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sitting duck: Wiktionary
  9. sitting duck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sitting duck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sitting duck: Dictionary.com
  12. Sitting duck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sitting duck: Rhymezone
  14. sitting duck: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sitting duck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sitting duck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sitting duck: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sitting duck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sitting duck: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sitting duck)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An obvious, vulnerable target.

Similar:
easy mark, dead duck, lucky duckling, duck, decoy-duck, odd duck, lucky duck, shark bait, easy target, bogey, more...

Opposite:
moving target, agile, evasive, elusive

Types:
patsy, stooge, scapegoat, fall guy, mark, more...

Phrases:
a sitting duck, more...

Adjectives:
lash, skim, halt, chock a block, chockablock, head, skippy, chock-a-block, choky, stickle, stab

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Similar:
easy mark, dead duck, lucky duckling, duck, decoy-duck, odd duck, lucky duck, shark bait, easy target, bogey, more...

Opposite:
moving target, agile, evasive, elusive

Types:
patsy, stooge, scapegoat, fall guy, mark, more...

Phrases:
a sitting duck, more...

Adjectives:
lash, skim, halt, chock a block, chockablock, head, skippy, chock-a-block, choky, stickle, stab



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