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1. Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
   "This term paper stinks!"
    
2. Smell badly and offensively
   "The building stinks of smoke";
   - reek, hum [Brit]

1. A distinctive odour that is offensively unpleasant
   "a terrible stink saluted our nostrils";
   - malodor [US], malodour [Brit, Cdn], stench, reek, fetor, foetor [Brit], mephitis
    
2. An angry disturbance
   "he didn't want to make a stink";
   - fuss, trouble, bother, hassle

Derived forms: stinks, stunk, stank, stinking

See also: stink up

Type of: be, disturbance, odor [US], odour [Brit, Cdn], olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, perturbation, smell

Encyclopedia: Stink