Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Skunk \Skunk\, v. t.
   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. [Colloq. U. S.]

Skunk \Skunk\, n. [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian)
   seganku.] (Zo["o]l.)
   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.

   Note: The common species of the Eastern United States
         ({Mephitis mephitica}) is black with more or less white
         on the body and tail. The spotted skunk ({Spilogale
         putorius}), native of the Southwestern United States
         and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is
         variously marked with black and white.

   {Skunk bird}, {Skunk blackbird} (Zo["o]l.), 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
      f[oe]tidus}>) 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}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Porpoise}.

Source : WordNet®

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