skunk

Plural: skunks

Noun

• a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
• a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
• street names for marijuana
• American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
• Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
• A despicable person.
• Anything very bad; a stinker.
• A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
• A win by thirty or more points. (A double skunk is sixty or more, a triple skunk ninety or more.)
• A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
• Clipping of skunkweed, type of marijuana.
• Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.

Verb

Verb Forms: skunked, skunking, skunks

• To defeat an opponent overwhelmingly in a game.
• defeat by a lurch
• To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
• To win by thirty or more points.
• To go bad, to spoil.

Examples

• I skunked him at cards.
• My opponent managed to SKUNK me in Words With Friends, leaving me with zero points after my last rack.
• We fished all day but the lake skunked us.

Synonyms

bum, crumb, dirty dog, dope, gage, git, grass, green goddess, locoweed, lowlife, lurch, Mary Jane, polecat, pot, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, sens, sess, shutout, smoke, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot, weed, wood pussy

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polecat

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