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Piece of cake turned up? Keep mum on!
Answer for the clue "Piece of cake turned up? Keep mum on! ", 8 letters:
pushover
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also push-over , 1900 of jobs or tasks; 1922 of persons (bad boxers and easy women), from push (v.) + over (adv.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pushover is a platform puzzle game developed by Red Rat Software and published by Ocean Software in for the Amiga , Atari ST , DOS and Super NES . The game was sponsored by Smiths' British snack Quavers (now owned by Walkers ), and the plot revolves around ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change his/her mind or comply. 2 Someone who lets himself be picked or bullied on without defending or stand up for him/herself.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is easily taken advantage of any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch , breeze , picnic , snap , duck soup , child's play , walkover , piece of cake ]
Usage examples of pushover.
United States is a pushover for any ambitious or irredentist banana republic.
They would most likely be pushovers, which was just as well for this attack, the army had no air support.
Besides, they're pushovers for somebody who knows how to throw a Frisbee.
By the time he had finished with cosmic catastrophe, his audience would be pushovers for any less cataclysmic scenario.
On the inspections front, UNSCOM and its counterpart for nuclear inspections, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), proved not to be the pushovers Baghdad had expected.
They wouldn't let a three-time loser--a pushover for a fourth fall--stand in their way.
She is no pushover as Mr Stan well knows, having tried the chocolates-and-flowers routine and finally what he calls 'A little smile in the hand, darling', which, when translated out of rag-trade language, means a bribe.