skunk

Noun

• American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

• street names for marijuana

• a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

• 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'
    

Verb

• defeat by a lurch

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  polecat , wood pussy , shutout , lurch