skunk

skunk is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
2. transitive verb. In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
3. noun. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

   Synonyms: polecat

4. noun. street names for marijuana

   Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, locoweed, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed

5. noun. a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

   Synonyms: shutout

6. noun. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

   "only a rotter would do that"

   "kill the rat"

   Synonyms: bum, crumb, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, stinker, stinkpot

7. verb. defeat by a lurch

   Synonyms: lurch

Synonyms

polecat, dope, gage, grass, locoweed, pot, sens, sess, smoke, weed, shutout, bum, crumb, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, stinker, stinkpot, lurch

Common word forms

skunks, skunked, skunking

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