getting clobbered/getting skunked

[A. Maberry]

I would use the terms exactly as you would, for whatever it's worth.
In a baseball context, I would say "shut out" rather than "skunked",
although my grandfather would never have said "shut out" in that context
(or any other context) always, "skunked."

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Billionbridges.com wrote:

> 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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