"skunk" in the noun sense

1. rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git

a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

"only a rotter would do that"

"kill the rat"

"throw the bum out"

"you cowardly little pukes!"

"the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

2. shutout, skunk

a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

3. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane

street names for marijuana

4. skunk, polecat, wood pussy

American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

"skunk" in the verb sense

1. lurch, skunk

defeat by a lurch

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