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Noun: skunk  skúngk
  1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
    - rotter, dirty dog, rat, stinker, stinkpot, bum [N. Amer], crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git [Brit], bugger, sleazebag, scuzz [N. Amer], scuzzball [N. Amer], sleazeball, scuzzbag [N. Amer], ratbag [Brit], scuzzbucket [N. Amer], slimebag, slimeball, scumbag
     
  2. A defeat in a game where one side fails to score
    - shutout
     
  3. Street names 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]
Verb: skunk  skúngk
  1. 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