Usually means: Mammal known for its spray.
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  1. skunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Skunk, skunk: Merriam-Webster
  3. skunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skunk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skunk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skunk, skunk: Wordnik
  8. skunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skunk: Wiktionary
  10. skunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skunk: Dictionary.com
  14. skunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. skunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Skunk (Cannabis), Skunk (Cannabis strain), Skunk (band), Skunk (cannabis), Skunk (cannabis strain), Skunk (disambiguation), Skunk (weapon), Skunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Skunk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. skunk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. skunk: Rhymezone
  20. Skunk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. skunk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SKUNK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. skunk: FreeDictionary.org
  24. skunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. skunk: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. skunk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. skunk: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skunk (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. skunk, skunk, skunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. skunk: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Skunk: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See skunked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, dated) A despicable person.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, dated) Anything very bad; a stinker.
noun:  (slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
noun:  (cribbage) A win by thirty or more points. (A double skunk is sixty or more, a triple skunk ninety or more.)
verb:  (transitive, slang) To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
verb:  (cribbage) To win by thirty or more points.
verb:  (intransitive, of beer) To go bad, to spoil.
noun:  A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
noun:  Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.
noun:  (slang) Clipping of skunkweed (marijuana). [Any of several American plants that have an offensive odour, but especially Croton texensis and Polemonium viscosum.]

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