monomark

British

/ ˈmɒnəmɑːk /

noun

a series of letters or figures to identify goods, personal articles, etc

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He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess.

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Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident.

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