skunk

Meanings

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.
• A despicable person.
• A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score.
• A win by 30 or more points. (A double skunk is 60 or more, a triple skunk 90 or more.)
• A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
• Short form of skunkweed .
• Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding those of typical hashish.

Verb

• To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
• To win by 30 or more points.
• To go bad, to spoil.

Origin

• From an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek-.
• , influenced by the animal (Etymology 1).
• From skunkweed