rotten

rotten

1. mod. smelly; disgusting. (Not slang.) What is that rotten smell?
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. (see also putrid.) It takes a case of beer to get Wilbur rotten.
3. mod. poor or bad. (From sense 1) We have nothing but one rotten problem after another.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a bad apple
  • a bad/rotten apple
  • a rotten apple
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • a rotten egg
  • bad egg
  • be rotten to the core
  • early ripe, early rotten
  • is rotten in Denmark
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • rotten
  • rotten apple
  • rotten apple spoils the barrel
  • rotten apple spoils the barrel, a
  • rotten egg
  • rotten luck
  • rotten to the core
  • something is rotten in (the state of) Denmark
  • something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  • spoil (one) rotten
  • spoil somebody rotten
  • spoiled rotten
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