stink up
verb1
Informal To cause to stink.
- The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.
- He was constructing a cigarette from newspaper and string. “[…]Don’t light that thing, Dill, you’ll stink up this whole end of town.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
2
Figuratively, Informal To perform very badly in (a place).
- 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.1997 September 29, “BENGALS `STUNK UP THE JOINT'”, in Dayton Daily News:
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- stink out