stink out

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To cause to stink; to fill with stench.
   • The broccoli really stank out the refrigerator.
   • “Dere ya go. Bung it in ’ere, quick. Before it stinks de whole flat out.”
     Zoe almost gasped at the unfairness of what the woman had just said. It was her fat stepmother’s prawn-cocktail-crisp breath that stank the place out! Her breath could strip paint. It could shear the feathers off a bird and...2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To perform very badly in (a place).
3. (informal, transitive) To drive away from a place by a stink.
   • They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC