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no mark

no mark is the alternative form 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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Forms of no mark

pluralno marks

Questions about no mark

What is no mark the alternative form of?
No mark is the alternative form of no-mark.

Words near no mark in the dictionary

  1. no man is an island
  2. No Man's Heath
  3. No Man's Heath and District
  4. no man's land
  5. no man's lands
  6. no mark
  7. no marks
  8. no mas
  9. no matter
  10. no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee
  11. no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no mark (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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