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Synonyms for Skunk (same or very similar meaning)

WordNet sense 1 (a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible):
bum, crumb, lowlife, puke, rat, so-and-so, stinker, git, rotter, stinkpot, dirty dog

WordNet sense 2 (a defeat in a game where one side fails to score):
shutout

WordNet sense 3 (street names for marijuana):
dope, gage, grass, locoweed, pot, smoke, sens, sess, green goddess, Mary Jane

WordNet sense 4 (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae):
polecat, wood pussy

WordNet sense 5 (defeat by a lurch):
lurch


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