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1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
   "only a skunk would do that";
   - rotter, dirty dog, rat, stinker, stinkpot, bum [N. Amer], crumb, lowlife, scumbag, so-and-so, git [Brit], scuzz [N. Amer], slimebag, ratbag [Brit], scuzzball [N. Amer], sleazebag, scuzzbucket [N. Amer], toad, dirtbag [US], scuzzbag [N. Amer], slimeball, sleazeball
    
2. A defeat in a game where one side fails to score
   - shutout
    
3. A street name for marijuana
   - pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, locoweed [N. Amer], Mary Jane
    
4. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
   - polecat [N. Amer], wood pussy [N. Amer]

1. (card game) defeat by a lurch
   - lurch

Derived forms: skunks, skunking, skunked

Type of: cannabis, dagga [S.Africa], defeat, disagreeable person, ganja, get the better of, licking, marihuana, marijuana, mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal, overcome, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Skunk