Skunk

n.	1.	(Zool.) 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. Skunk bird (Zool.) the bobolink; - so called because the male, in the breeding season, is black and white, like a skunk. Skunk cabbage (Bot.) an American aroid herb (Symplocarpus fŒtidus) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called swamp cabbage. Skunk porpoise (Zool.) See under Porpoise.
v. t.	1.	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.

Noun	1.	skunk - 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: dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot, bum, crumb, rat
	2.	skunk - a defeat in a game where one side fails to score Synonyms: shutout
	3.	skunk - street names for marijuana Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, Mary Jane, sens, sess, locoweed, weed, grass, smoke, pot
	4.	skunk - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae Synonyms: polecat, wood pussy
Verb	1.	skunk - defeat by a lurch Synonyms: lurch

To see a skunk in your dream, suggests that you may be driving people or turning people off. Alternatively, it indicates that all is calm about a certain situation but you do not necessarily like it or agree with it.Cape polecat, animal, ape, bar, bear, beast, beat, blank, bulldoze, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, clobber, coon, cream, cur, defeat utterly, dog, drub, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, hound, hyena, insect, lambaste, larrup, lick, mongrel, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, overbear, overwhelm, paste, pig, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, prick, quill pig, raccoon, reptile, rotten egg, schmear, scum, serpent, shellac, shit, shithead, shut out, smear, snake, snow under, steamroller, stink ball, stink bomb, stinkard, stinker, stinkpot, swine, thrash, toad, turd, varmint, vermin, viper, warning sign, weasel, whelm, whelp, whistle-pig, whitewash, whomp, whop, wolverine, woodchuck, worm, zoril

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