stinkverb/stɪŋk/

• 1

  To have a strong bad smell.

• 2

  informalTo be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

  • That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
  • They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book.
• 3

  To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.

  • Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
  • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
• 4

  To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

stinknoun/stɪŋk/

• 1

  A strong bad smell.

  • “I’m thankful for this beautiful morning!” He points toward the sky. “See that sunrise? Smell that air—” / “That’s stink from the rendering plant.”
• 2

  informalA complaint or objection.

  • If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
  • She's made a big stink about me calling her "Miss", not "Ms".

stinkadj/stɪŋk/

• 1

  slangBad; inferior; worthless.

  • The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
• 2

  Bad-smelling, stinky.

  • 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013, Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
  • Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today.