no-mark
noun British informal
An unimportant, unsuccessful, or worthless person: a bunch of glue-sniffing no-marks with underfed dogs on strings...
- You had to drag in this bunch of no-marks to make up the numbers!
- Sheridan was never going to do to him what he did to the Aussie no-mark the week before.
- Whole Wide World is one of the first songs a bunch of scruffy young teenage no-marks ever played in public, down in Lower Salthill.
Origin
1980s: perhaps from the idea of performing badly at school.