stink out or up Definition

stink
noun

1. A strong and very unpleasant smell.

Thesaurus: stench, smell, fetor, foulness, miasma, effluvium.
2. colloq
An angry complaint or outraged reaction; a fuss.

verb stank (past tense), stunk, stunk (past participle), stinking (present participle)

intr
1. To give off an offensive smell.
intr
2. colloq
To be contemptibly bad or unpleasant.
Example: The idea of going with Harry stinks
intr
3. colloq
To be morally suspect or disgusting.
Example: thought the deal stank from the beginning

Idiom: stink to the heavens (high heavens)

To emit a very offensive smell.

To be morally very suspect or disgusting.

Idiom: kick up, raise (make a stink)

To cause trouble, especially disagreeably and in public.

Idiom: stink of something

To emit an offensive smell of it.

To be indicative of it.
Example: This stinks of double-dealing

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon stincan to smell.

Phrasal Verb: stink out or up

To fill (a room, etc) with an offensive smell.