stink up

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) 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, transitive) 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