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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is easily taken advantage of
2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1906 1. something accomplished without difficulty ; snap 2. an opponent who is easy to defeat or a victim who is capable of no effective resistance 3. someone unable to resist an attraction or appeal ; sucker

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. 1 something that is easily done. 2 a person who can easily be overcome, persuaded, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pushovers) 1. You say that someone is a pushover when you find it easy to persuade them to do what you want. (INFORMAL) He is a tough negotiator. We did not expect to find him a pushover and he has not been one. N-COUNT 2. You say that something is a pushover when it is easy to do or easy to get. (INFORMAL) You might think Hungarian a pushover to learn. It is not. = doddle N-COUNT: usu sing

Moby Thesaurus

Cadmean victory, KO, Milquetoast, Pyrrhic victory, ascendancy, babe, baby, big baby, boob, breeze, championship, chicken, chump, cinch, cipher, conquest, credulous person, crybaby, cull, doormat, duck, dud, dull tool, dummy, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, easy target, easy thing, easy victory, fall guy, fish, fool, gobe-mouches, grand slam, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, gutless wonder, hollow man, innocent, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, lay figure, lead-pipe cinch, leadpipe cinch, lightweight, man of straw, mastery, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, monkey, moral victory, mug, namby-pamby, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, pansy, pantywaist, patsy, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pigeon, pipe, plaything, prize sap, puppet, runaway victory, sad sack, sap, saphead, schlemiel, setup, sinecure, sissy, sitting duck, snap, soft touch, softling, softy, sop, stooge, subdual, subduing, success, sucker, sure thing, thing of naught, total victory, toy, trifle, triumph, trusting soul, velvet, victim, victory, walkaway, walkover, weak sister, weakling, win, winning, winning streak, zero