I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stink bomb
stinking/filthy rich disapproving (= very rich )
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She was obviously stinking rich.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heaven
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It stank to high heaven of salt-fish and shit, the aforementioned by far the more offensive.
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Their office layout stank to high-tech heaven .
place
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The place stank like a sewer!
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The place stank of cockroach repellant and dead cigarettes.
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The whole place stank of money: much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club.
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I came downstairs and the place stank of unwashed bodies mixed with the smells of kippers being grilled and sausages fried.
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The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dry rot.
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The place stank of scorched hair and deodorant.
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Like any over-populated, under-capitalised place , it could stink of smoke and shit and sick and sleep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stinking drunk
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Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
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At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
stinking letter
stinking rich
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her room is filthy, and it stinks.
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His clothes stank of cigarette smoke.
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How can you eat that cheese? It stinks.
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You boys stink to high heaven - go inside and take a shower.
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Your shoes stink .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boys with wicker baskets full of bricks and masonry hurry past; the streets stink and run with mud and excrement.
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But area teenagers said Wednesday that the provisions stink .
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But the move, though it stinks, was legal.
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Conveyancing is a reactionary adversarial system-and in the main it stinks.
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The fish Cassius returned home with lay in a plastic basin in the kitchen, spoiled and stinking.
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The woman stank of neglect, her clothes were torn and filthy, and tears had made twin furrows down her face.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bomb
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They said the protesters let off stink bombs and covered four players with eggs and flour.
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The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish.
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His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else's concentration.
■ VERB
kick
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It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink .
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It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
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It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kick up a fuss/stink/row
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It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
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It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
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It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
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It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
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Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
stinking drunk
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Clayton got positively stinking drunk.
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At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.
stinking letter
stinking rich
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The stink from the drains is almost unbearable in summer.
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The stink of burning rubber permeated the hot summer air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Emitting a stink that would have made a Tyryttiaki swamp mist seem fragrant.
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I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.
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It was the stink of suffering.
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She crept down toward the stink of blood.
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The stink of gasoline filled the air and the Prophet's eyes widened in shocked disbelief.
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You really do have to make a stink .