getting clobbered/getting skunked

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Sports terminology:

"Getting skunked" means your team doesn't score at
all, to which my own understanding and the ADS-L archives
attest. However, on another email list a colleague asserted
that "getting clobbered" meant the same thing.

I protested that "getting clobbered" merely meant that the
score was lopsided, regardless of whether the losing team
scored 0 or not, and that "getting skunked" was reserved
for scores where the losing team got 0, but now I wonder
if I'm not operating under a Canadian regionalism? Would
anyone say a team "got skunked" if the score were, say,
18-2?

Don
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