stinking drunk

stinking drunk

Extremely drunk; so drunk that one stinks of alcohol. If you're going to keep coming home stinking drunk each night, then you can just find somewhere else to live! We all ended up getting stinking drunk on cheap vodka.
See also: drunk, stinking
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stinking (drunk)

mod. alcohol intoxicated. He was really stinking.
See also: drunk, stinking
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • crosseyed
  • screaming drunk
  • cross-eyed drunk
  • funky-drunk
  • booze
  • screech
  • screeching
  • screeching drunk
  • pifficated
  • nurse a drink
References in periodicals archive
He was stinking drunk for the whole act, so much so there was no act." The incident comes four months after Johnny stunned fans by revealing he had lost three stone in weight after ditching booze and fast-food.
When it came time for closing arguments, English was in a saloon, "stinking drunk." A couple of bar room roustabouts heaved him into a buggy and hauled him off to court.
Rachel becomes involved in their lives after one particular visit to her old community, but she's too stinking drunk to recall the events of that fateful day-which happens to be when Megan suspiciously disappears.
Michael Shannon delivers a strong performance as Jamie, who needs to get stinking drunk (which he does, memorably, in act two) to unburden his tormented soul to his younger brother.
Leoncavallo's music, beginning at the word "Coraggio!" in Act II, suggests a Canio/Pagliaccio who's stinking drunk, though nothing in Springer's acting or singing communicated that.
So, in the customary behaviour of Irish people everywhere, she pulls out a bottle of vodka and proceeds to get stinking drunk.
Now it is a totally different situation, the extra drinking hours mean drinkers now think the only way to have a good time is to get stinking drunk.
And they sing dozens of songs as they fall off their chairs, literally stinking drunk."
"One time I went overboard and I came in absolutely stinking drunk. I was being sick.
The News went further than the Times, too, in offering its readers a lovely excerpt from Fo's Mistero Buffo in which Jesus, having made water into wine for the multitudes, sensibly and with infinite Christian gentleness exhorts the people to get stinking drunk. The wine he's made, after all, is very, very good.
I ended my work day with a stop at the old watering hole; I got stinking drunk while playing the role of a tough guy, but that only lasted for a little while.
However, defamation suits stood against a newspaper that dubbed someone an "extortionist" and a magazine whose photo caption read: "A New Year's tribute here to all the ostriches who gave their tails to make the world free for closet transvestites from South Philly to get themselves stinking drunk."
Emma would walk her two youngest children, Liam, then six, and Ami, then three, to and from school two miles away, while trying to hide the fact she was stinking drunk or had a hangover.
Nicholas Nelson said Willis had gone to his house in Kirkdale "rotten stinking drunk" after spending the weekend ticket touting at Wembley, where Liverpool had won the Carling Cup.
Over three days in a New Jersey hotel, the competitors and their loved ones meet, greet, audition, fight and flirt while vulgar event producer Bokade (Jameel Khan) gets stinking drunk and makes a pass at one of the judges.