Usually means: Mammals known for their spray.
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  1. skunks: Merriam-Webster
  2. skunks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skunks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Skunk's, Skunks, skunk's, skunks: Wordnik
  5. skunks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. skunks: Wiktionary
  7. skunks: Dictionary.com
  8. skunks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Skunks, The Skunks (ska band), The Skunks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. skunks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skunks: Encyclopedia

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  2. skunks: Medical dictionary

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  1. skunks: Idioms

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  1. skunks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skunk)

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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