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stink out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To cause to stink; to fill with stench.
    • “Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.” Zoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and make it bald. 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
    • The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To perform very badly in (a place).
  3. (informal, transitive) To drive away from a place by a stink.
    • They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out. 1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stank out Tense=Past lexicographic
stinking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stunk out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stinks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

stink the joint out

Relateds

stink up