From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Skunk \Skunk\, v. t.
In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in
cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to
get a king. [Colloq. U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Skunk \Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian)
seganku.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores
of the genus {Mephitis} and allied genera. They have two
glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid,
which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The common species of the Eastern United States
({Mephitis mephitica}) is black with more or less white
on the body and tail. The spotted skunk ({Spilogale
putorius}), native of the Southwestern United States
and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is
variously marked with black and white.
[1913 Webster]
{Skunk bird}, {Skunk blackbird} (Zool.), the bobolink; -- so
called because the male, in the breeding season, is black
and white, like a skunk.
{Skunk cabbage} (Bot.), an American aroid herb ({Symplocarpus
f[oe]tidus}) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest
spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves.
It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called {swamp
cabbage}.
{Skunk porpoise}. (Zool.) See under {Porpoise}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skunk
n 1: 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'" [syn: {rotter}, {dirty dog},
{rat}, {skunk}, {stinker}, {stinkpot}, {bum}, {puke},
{crumb}, {lowlife}, {scum bag}, {so-and-so}, {git}]
2: a defeat in a game where one side fails to score [syn:
{shutout}, {skunk}]
3: street names for marijuana [syn: {pot}, {grass}, {green
goddess}, {dope}, {weed}, {gage}, {sess}, {sens}, {smoke},
{skunk}, {locoweed}, {Mary Jane}]
4: American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely
malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put
in a separate subfamily Mephitinae [syn: {skunk}, {polecat},
{wood pussy}]
v 1: defeat by a lurch [syn: {lurch}, {skunk}]
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