SKUNK

• (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

  synonyms : polecat , wood pussy

• (noun) street names for marijuana

  synonyms : dope , gage , grass , green goddess , locoweed , mary jane , pot , sens , sess , smoke , weed

• (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

  synonyms : shutout

• (noun) 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'"

  synonyms : bum , crumb , dirty dog , git , lowlife , puke , rat , rotter , scum bag , so-and-so , stinker , stinkpot

• (verb) defeat by a lurch

  synonyms : lurch

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