skunk adj.
(US) second-rate, inferior.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 4/11 Feb. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 502: He thinks I am skunk brave and have no brains. | |
| Bound for Glory (1969) 355: You’re a sneakin’ fifth column sonofabitch! Tryin’ ta pertect them skunk Japs. | |
| Pimp 178: Reefer is for low-class skunk broads. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 10: You ain’t nothing but a foxy dude to stop playing for skunk bitches. | |
| Rope Burns 42: Germans have us freezing cold in some skunk hotel smell of piss and beer. | |
| ‘Beautiful Even in Death’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Fenton had tossed down a few skunk beers he’d hidden beneath his seat. |
In derivatives
1. (Aus.) duplicitous, reprehensible.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 11 Mar. 4/2: In much the same skunkly schedule may be graded every crime known to humbug and artifice, and pricked out in topsy-turvy defintions by Parliament. |
2. (US) of flavour, unpleasant.
| On the Bro’d 173: [T]hat shit [i.e. decanted beer] was gonna taste mad skunky in just a couple days. |