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skunk

 
Noun skunk has 4 senses
  1. rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git - 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'"
    --1 is a kind of unpleasant person, disagreeable person
  2. shutout, skunk - a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
    --2 is a kind of defeat, licking
    Derived form: verb skunk1
  3. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane - street names for marijuana
    --3 is a kind of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
  4. skunk, polecat, wood pussy - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
    --4 is a kind of musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline
    --4 has particulars:
     striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis; hooded skunk, Mephitis macroura; hog-nosed skunk, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk, Conepatus leuconotus; spotted skunk, little spotted skunk, Spilogale putorius
Verb skunk has 1 sense
  1. lurch, skunk - defeat by a lurch
    --1 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
    Derived form: noun skunk2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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