Skunk - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |skʌŋk|  American pronunciation of the word skunk
Brit.  |skʌŋk|  British pronunciation of the word skunk

noun

- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (syn: bum, crumb, puke, rat, rotter, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot)
- a defeat in a game where one side fails to score (syn: shutout)
- street names for marijuana (syn: dope, gage, grass, locoweed, pot, smoke, weed)
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae (syn: polecat)

verb

- defeat by a lurch (syn: lurch)

Extra examples

Her brother's a low-down, dirty skunk.

...he's nothing but a dirty, rotten skunk...

He made a practice of skunking hotels.

We got 10 and they got skunked.

...we traced the bad smell to a dead skunk putrefying under the house...

You miserable skunk!

Word forms

noun
singular: skunk
plural: skunks or skunk
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