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What is a sitting duck?

What is a sitting duck? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) An obvious or unconcealed target.
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She was using my slipstream to save her the energy of facing the wind resistance, very tactical but it made her a sitting duck for weaponry.
Instead, I come only with the message that we missed a sitting duck as far as agricultural trade reform is concerned.
The destroyer Express took us in tow, but the towline parted so she came alongside and took the troops and wounded on board and left us a sitting duck.
Perhaps the deep-pocketed corporation was the real victim, some grotesque combination of sitting duck and cash cow?
A weaving target has a chance, but a target standing motionless is a sitting duck and his life hangs by a hair.
Considering that an armed sitting duck was better off than the plain old garden-variety sitting duck, he parlayed a Ruger.30 Blackhawk to add to his utility belt.

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