skunk
noun
1. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
Similar word(s): bum, crumb, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, stinker, stinkpot
Definition categories: person
2. a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
Similar word(s): shutout
Definition categories: event, defeat, licking
3. street names for marijuana
Similar word(s): dope, gage, grass, locoweed, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed
Definition categories: man–made, cannabis, ganja, marihuana, marijuana
4. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
Similar word(s): polecat
verb
1. defeat by a lurch
Similar word(s): lurch
Definition categories: competition, defeat, overcome
Sentences with skunk as a verb:
- I skunked him at cards.
- We fished all day but the lake skunked us.