Skunk

4 definitions found

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) 2.0 [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}, {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}]
       3: street names for marijuana [syn: {pot}, {grass}, {green
          goddess}, {dope}, {weed}, {gage}, {sess}, {sens}, {smoke},
           {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: {polecat}, {wood
          pussy}]
       v : defeat by a lurch [syn: {lurch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "skunk":
     Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, beat, blank, bulldoze,
     cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, clobber, coon, cream, cur, defeat utterly,
     dog, drub, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig,
     hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, lambaste, larrup, lick, mongrel,
     monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pig,
     polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, prick, quill pig, raccoon,
     reptile, rotten egg, schmear, scum, serpent, shellac, shit,
     shithead, shut out, smear, snake, snow under, steamroller,
     stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, thrash,
     toad, turd, varmint, vermin, viper, warning sign, weasel, whelm,
     whelp, whistle-pig, whitewash, whomp, whop, wolverine, woodchuck,
     worm, zoril