skunk
To spray someone with a strong-smelling liquidTo spray someone with a strong-smelling liquid.
Meaning
4 senses(US, especially, transitive)To spray someone with a strong-smelling liquid.
(US, slang, transitive)To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
I skunked him at cards.
We fished all day but the lake skunked us.
defeat by a lurch
(US)To win by thirty or more points.
(US, intransitive)To go bad, to spoil.
Examples
61 sentencesTom is drunk as a skunk.
ruТом в стельку пьян. — marafon
Tom got sprayed by a skunk.
ruТома обрызгал скунс. — Wezel
Tom was drunk as a skunk.
ruТом был пьян как свинья. — marafon
I swerved to avoid hitting a skunk.
ruЯ свернул, чтобы не задеть скунса. — Robertpaulson
Tom was as drunk as a skunk.
Origin
Borrowed from an unattested Southern New England Eastern Algonquian word cognate with AbenBorrowed from an unattested Southern New England Eastern Algonquian word cognate with Abenaki segôgw (literally “he who squirts (musk) / urinates”), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”). Doublet of Chicago.
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Forms
skunks, skunking, skunked, skunkedSynonyms
1 synonyms- defeat by a lurch:lurch
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.