stink up

stink up (third-person singular simple present stinks up, present participle stinking up, simple past stank up, past participle stunk up)

1. (transitive, informal) To cause to stink.

   The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     He was constructing a cigarette from newspaper and string.
     “ […] Don’t light that thing, Dill, you’ll stink up this whole end of town.”

2. (transitive, figurative, informal) To perform very badly in (a place).
   • 1997 September 29, “BENGALS `STUNK UP THE JOINT'”, in Dayton Daily News:

     That's what the Bengals did again Sunday, when, in Wilkinson's words, they "stunk up the joint" in a 31-14 loss to the New York Jets at Cinergy Field.

• stink out

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