A Mazook is a person who gets scammed or swindled so badly that there's nothing they can do about it but accept that they've been taken for a fool.
Did you see what cards Anthony actually had? He took the pot of chips and I got Mazooked. When I approached Anthony he replied, "Only one Mazook per night."
Did you get about the guy who lost a million dollars in that Ponzi Scheme? What a Mazook!
'Malooka' is a word shrouded in mystery. Some sources date it back to the Florentine city state in the 15th century - it figures in graffiti from that era where local political figures and luminaries are often defined as being 'monstrous malookas'.
The word then went very quiet for centuries before suddenly appearing in some of the language used by prospectors during the Australian Gold Rush. Apparently it meant 'word taken from an indigenous language which then becomes a worldwide pop sensation'. So for example, a kylie is a malooka (kylie being Aboriginal for ''boomerang') since it was then adopted by the Minogue parents when they sired their elder chanteuse.
'Malooka' is also used by contemporary British artists who I can't name here as a synonym for 'kit and kaboodle'.
I took a malooka from the ancient Etruscan language when I named my daughter 'Clementianaisaana" whcih meant, in Etruscan, 'gilded lily'.