stink up

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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.
  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.

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