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no-marks

no-marks is the plural of no-mark.

Meaning of no-mark

Noun

no-mark (plural no-marks)

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

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Questions about no-marks

What is no-marks the plural of?
No-marks is the plural of no-mark.

Words near no-marks in the dictionary

  1. no-man's-land
  2. no-man's-lands
  3. no-mark
  4. no-marked
  5. no-marking
  6. no-marks
  7. No-Mates
  8. no-name
  9. no-names
  10. no-no
  11. no-no boy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no-marks (page history and authors); no-mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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