the verb SKUNK in cribbage (revival)

[Joel S. Berson]

And in my earlier days, in the Northeast -- Boston, at least.

Isn't "skunk" also used in some card games?  Perhaps hearts, when one
player takes all the points, and thereby wins.  A half-hearted Google
search also showed up this, at
http://www.dolphincovegames.com/dcgs/games/euchre/gloss.php, about
euchre:  "to win a game with the opponent having scored zero points;
to shut out an opponent: Also whitewash"

Joel

At 11/20/2006 10:13 AM, you wrote:
>This use of SKUNK is alive and well in Minnesota as well.  I have
>know of it all
>my cribbage-playing life. In fact, some of the cribbage boards on
>which I played
>during college in Minneapolis had an actual line drawn on them to
>make the SKUNK
>even clearer. It is the ultimate humiliation to any cribbage player
>(except for
>the dreaded DOUBLE-SKUNK).
>
>John M. Spartz -- MN(31), IN(3)
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