skunk ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v. — Slang

fail or cause to fail (in an attempt to get or achieve something).

Quotations

1961

We could almost taste the steelhead Sunday after finding the little "Q" (river) so prime but were skunked.

1963

One of my partners boated and released an eight-incher and the other worthy, who fished less than us, was skunked.