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no-mark en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang) An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.
    • She's said to be 'in pieces' after reading nasty comments calling her a 'no mark Brit' on American websites just as she's mentally girding her loins for her big move to Los Angeles. Google boo-boo: Cheryl Cole 'upset' after seeing slurs about herself on internet ahead of her X Factor USA appointment, Daily Mail, 30 April 2011
    • My favourite bit – bar the attempt to enforce a ruthless caste system in the no-mark community – is the prissy way Danny asterisks the word fuck … Danny Dyer v Dane Bowers: two no-marks at war, Marina Hyde, The Guardian, 5 February 2010
    • If you had a daughter, and I want you to think about this seriously, would you honestly want her wasting herself on a no mark like that? The Family, Martina Cole, 2010
  2. A score in athletics having after having not set a valid ground marking in a distance measurement. A score of 0 metres, resulting from faulting/fouling out of competition.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
no-marks Number=Plur lexicographic
no mark alternative lexicographic

no-mark en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. To fail to record a valid score, and produce a score of 0 or no-mark (no distance), by failing to make a valid ground mark from an attempt, and fouling/faulting out of competition.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
no-marking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
no-marks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
no mark alternative lexicographic
no-marked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
no-marked Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

NM

Relateds

markless · mark · no-height · NH · unremarkable