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n. Informal
An easy target or victim.


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Idioms: sitting duck
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An easy target, as in If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you're a sitting duck for a ticket. This term alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that remains in one spot, in contrast to one in flight. [First half of 1900s]

Games: Sitting Ducks
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Based on Britain's popular computer animated series, airing in the United States on the Cartoon Network, Sitting Ducks for PC has players controlling an affable duck named Bill and his sidekick friend Aldo, who just so happens to be an alligator. Played from a third-person perspective, the game has players journeying throughout a 3D re-creation of DuckTown, where the duo will meet up with such familiar characters as Ed, Oly, and Waddle, hitch a ride on a scooter, and perform various other task-oriented activities to help out friends in need.
~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide

Production Credits

Company 1: L.S.P.; Publishing: Olivier Goulon; Production Team: Cyrille Fontaine, Graeme Boxall; Q&A Team: Thomas Dhenin, Guillaume Plu, Fréderic Oughdentz, Ravi Le Rochus; Marketing Team: Albéric Guigou, Cécile Lamaure, Marianne Pujol, Stéphane Missoum, Rénald Lafarge; Company 2: Asobo Studio; Game Design: David Dedeine; 2D/3D Artwork: Patrice Bourroncle, Cedric Rousseau, Franck Manon; Animations and Cinematics: Ralph Musti, Andras Nick; Game Programming: Sebastian Wloch, Nicolas Coquard, Frederic Siess, Martial Bossard; Engine Programming: Alain Guyet, Nicolas Becavin, Olivier Monsonego; Company 3: Universal Studios; Advisor: Michael Bedard; Brand & Marketing Manager: Kate Gay; Music By: Kick Productions; Company 4: Hip Games; Publishing: Pete Young, Peter Thomas; Production: Jonathan Freedman, Matt Johnson, David Kydd; Marketing: Sandra McAuley, Chrissy Wilhelm
~ Keith Adams, All Game Guide
WordNet: sitting duck
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a defenseless victim
  Synonym: easy mark

Wikipedia: Sitting Ducks
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This article is about the lithograph. For the TV show, see Sitting Ducks (TV series).
For the 1980 film, see Sitting Ducks (film).
The iconic lithograph featuring the idiom "sitting duck" which led to the series of lithographs and other media.

Sitting Ducks is a lithograph created by Michael Bedard in the late 1970s. It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom "sitting duck". Three ducks are relaxing in the sun on white chairs by the poolside, one looks up and notices two bullet holes in the wall.

Bedard then went on to create an entire series of "Sitting Ducks" related lithographs, which culminated in a children's book and a cartoon series.

Book

Bedard's 1998 book, Sitting Ducks (ISBN 0-399-22847-0) has the plot that alligators hatch ducks in a "duck factory", then send them to Ducktown, where the ducks live an idyllic life, encouraged by billboards to fatten up. The alligators presumably eat the ducks once they are fat. One duck is befriended by an alligator, who lets him know that if only the Ducktown residents wouldn't get fat, they could fly away and avoid being eaten.

Cartoon

Main article: Sitting Ducks (TV series)

In 2001 Sitting Ducks was produced by Creative Capers Entertainment and Kristlin/Elliott Digital. It ran for two seasons and during that time spawned merchandise such as toys, clothing, books, as well as a video game.

The show takes place in a town called Ducktown and focuses on a duck named Bill, and his best friend Aldo, a huge alligator from the neighboring town of Swampwood. Seeing as how ducks are favorite snacks of the alligators there, Bill and Aldo's friendship is rather unusual. The pair usually end up in various situations and adventures.

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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