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单词 skunk
释义 skunk
 /skungk/,  n.  ,  pl.   skunks, (esp. collectively) skunk,  v.  
  n.  
  1. a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V-shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
  2. any of several related or similar animals. Cf. hog-nosed skunk, spotted skunk.
  3.  Informal.   a thoroughly contemptible person.
  4.  U.S. Navy Slang.   an unidentified ship or target.
  v.t.  
  5.  Slang.   to defeat thoroughly in a game, esp. while keeping an opponent from scoring: The team skunked the favorites in the crucial game.
 [1625-35, Amer.; < the Massachusett reflex of Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa (deriv. of *šek- urinate + -a·kw fox, foxlike animal]
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