Synonyms for skunk
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1. rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, gitnoun

   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'"

   Synonyms:
   vomit, lemon, keister, pot, wood pussy, seat, behind, crumb, butt, nates, hobo, rear end, blackleg, scum bag, locoweed, sens, barf, layabout, bottom, can, stern, git, informer, fundament, stinker, weed, posterior, buttocks, do-nothing, puke, polecat, stinkpot, backside, bum, grass, green goddess, betrayer, musk turtle, tail, idler, buns, arse, hindquarters, tail end, tush, sess, derriere, so-and-so, vomitus, hind end, rotter, dirty dog, ass, lowlife, tramp, rump, prat, strikebreaker, squealer, fanny, rear, dope, gage, shutout, smoke, loafer, scab, rat, blabber, tooshie

2. shutout, skunknoun

   a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

   Synonyms:
   wood pussy, locoweed, git, puke, rotter, dirty dog, green goddess, weed, stinker, gage, dope, sess, smoke, scum bag, bum, lowlife, shutout, rat, so-and-so, stinkpot, crumb, grass, pot, sens, polecat

3. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Janenoun

   street names for marijuana

   Synonyms:
   dummy, flock, sens, mickle, booby, so-and-so, stinkpot, hummer, pile, low-down, deal, git, crapper, commode, throne, roll of tobacco, fastball, bay window, stool, gage, weed, pot, heap, mourning band, smoke, plenty, rotter, heater, passel, slew, gauge, potbelly, quite a little, toilet, peck, pasturage, poop, sight, wad, potty, pasture, fume, dirty dog, good deal, the skinny, flowerpot, boob, supergrass, can, cola, polecat, green goddess, sess, batch, rat, stack, mess, smoking, spate, locoweed, lot, eatage, crazy weed, potful, shutout, bullet, mountain, scum bag, kitty, potentiometer, mint, dope, stinker, raft, jackpot, grass, mass, bum, tidy sum, corporation, hatful, crazyweed, wood pussy, crumb, tummy, forage, dumbbell, pinhead, great deal, muckle, lowlife, puke

4. skunk, polecat, wood pussyverb

   American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

   Synonyms:
   wood pussy, locoweed, git, puke, rotter, dirty dog, green goddess, weed, stinker, gage, dope, fitch, sess, smoke, bum, scum bag, foumart, lowlife, shutout, rat, so-and-so, stinkpot, crumb, grass, pot, sens, polecat, foulmart

5. lurch, skunkverb

   defeat by a lurch

   Synonyms:
   stagger, reel, shift, pitch, swag, careen, lurch, keel, prowl

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1. • Cards
   • Defeat
   • Marijuana
   • Unpleasant Person

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1. polrcat

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1. List of paraphrases for "skunk":

   badger

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How to use skunk in a sentence?

1. Austin O'Malley:

   Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

2. John Meyer:

   We all used to carry this stuff. I called it skunk oil, we poured it in a 2-gallon can, poured it out, and threw a match in it, and it'd start a fire along all the rails. We're talking in the mid -'70s. Nowadays you'd get in big trouble doing that.

3. Jeff Sessions:

   She ain't got no legs, we're about as close as peas and carrots. She's the best talker you've ever heard. They say she could sell stink to a skunk.

4. Abraham Lincoln:

   What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

5. Cathey Haley:

   Fox News’s quite odorful, Fox News’s a rude awakening at times, when a skunk lets go right underneath your house or right under your bed, it makes for a very interesting night of sleep, or lack thereof.