No-mark

Quick meaning: No-mark is a noun meaning (British, slang) An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.

Meaning

(British, slang) An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.

More Meanings

1. (athletics) 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.
2. (athletics) 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.

Example Sentences

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?

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 …

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.

Word Forms

• no-marks
• no-marking
• no-marked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zero, nonentity, zilch, nothing, nobody, marklessness.

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