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Skunk   /skəŋk/   Listen
Skunk

noun
1.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
2.
A defeat in a game where one side fails to score.  Synonym: shutout.
3.
Street names for marijuana.  Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed.
4.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.  Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy.
verb
1.
Defeat by a lurch.  Synonym: lurch.



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"Skunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Boston town, With his pistols three, With his pistols three, three, three; And never a skunk in Boston town That he didn't chaw ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

... the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge—"a white-livered skunk," and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happiness. He wanted to talk about the business, to show the splendour of her nature in the light of its complications. It was really most ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... skunk of an inspector wants to take us to the station, even if we do pay him. Keep ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja

... cold when things was on the fritz. Now, yeh gotta pay. If you wasn't nothing but a wop skunk yeh'd stand in with us. The way you're fixed would help us all. But now yeh makin' money and yeh scared ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... nothin' so fullish," returned Nick. "It's the skunk lyin' doggo behind it that I'm interested in. Broken Feather's thar, sure; and he ain't dead; he ain't even wounded. He's 'bout as much alive an' alert 's ever he was in his nat'ral. But his ammunition's all spent, an' he's jus' waitin' his chance ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton


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