skunk, skunkweed, "Skunk works" or "skunkworks"

One former user describes why more people should be aware that cannabis isn't always benign and cheerful...

I'm not anti-drugs, but smoking skunk made me completely lose my mind

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"Skunk works" or "skunkworks" is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.


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Pronunciation: /skʌŋkwiːd 

  

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Definition of skunkweed in English:

NOUN

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Cannabis of a variety which has a high concentrationof narcotic agents.

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Pronunciation: /skʌŋk 

  

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Definition of skunk in English:

NOUN

1A cat-sized American mammal of the weasel family, with distinctive black-and-white striped fur. Whenthreatened it squirts a fine spray of foul-smellingirritant liquid from its anal glands towards its attacker.

• Mephitis and other genera, family Mustelidae: several species, in particular the striped skunk (M. mephitis)

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1.1[MASS NOUN] The fur of the skunk.

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1.2informal A contemptible person:he’d run up a massive phone bill and hadn’t paid—the skunk

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2informal short for skunkweed.

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT] North American informalBack to top  

1Defeat (someone) overwhelmingly in a game orcontest, especially by preventing them from scoring at all:I knew he was a good fisherman, but I didn’t expecthim to skunk you

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2dated Fail to pay (a bill or creditor):he made a practice of skunking hotels

Origin

mid 17th century: from Abnaki segankw; variants occur in many other American Indian dialects.