Usage: informal
- Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
"a noisy crowd of skunked sailors";
- intoxicated, drunk, inebriated, ripped [informal], gone, inebriate
Usage: N. Amer, informal
- (card game) defeat by a lurch
"He skunked his opponent in cribbage, winning by more than 31 points";
- lurch
See also: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, beery, besotted [archaic], bevvied [Brit, informal], bibulous, bladdered [Brit, informal], blind drunk [informal], blitzed [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], blotto [informal], bombed [informal], boozy [informal], carousing, cockeyed [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], doped, drugged, drunk, drunken, fried [N. Amer, informal], fuddled [informal], geeked [informal], half-cut [Brit, informal], half-seas-over [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], high [informal], hopped-up, juiced [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], liquored up [N. Amer], lit up [slang], loaded [N. Amer, informal], mellow [informal], merry [informal], mullered [Brit, informal], narcotised [Brit], narcotized, off one's face [Brit, informal], orgiastic, out of it [Brit, informal], paralytic [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], pixillated, plastered [informal], screwed [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], sottish, soused [informal], sozzled [informal], squiffed [informal], squiffy [informal], steaming [informal], stewed [informal], stiff [informal], stinko [informal], stoned [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], tanked up [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], tiddly [Brit, informal], tight [informal], tipsy, trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], wasted [informal], wet [informal], wrecked [Brit, informal]
Type of: defeat, get the better of, overcome
Encyclopedia: Skunk