skunk has definitions from the fields of zoology,pharmacology,botany,games,sport
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[ noun ] a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

Examples

"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'"

Used in print

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

In a similar vein , but writing from the opposite side , Thomas_Taylor , a private in the 6_th Alabama_Volunteers , in a letter to his wife , stated : `` You know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe By a set of cowardly Skunks whose Motto is Booty .

Related terms

unpleasant_person rat

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[ noun ] (pharmacology) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect
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[ noun ] (botany) a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared

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hemp acapulco_gold

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[ verb ] (games) defeat by a lurch, as in certain card games

Synonyms

lurch

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overcome card_game

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[ noun ] (pharmacology) street names for marijuana

Related terms

cannabis smoke

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[ noun ] (sport) a game in which one side fails to score

Synonyms

shutout

Related terms

game defeat lurch

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

Synonyms

wood_pussy polecat

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