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stinker
noun- an offensive or despicable person or thing US, 1911
- This local is a stinker. Christ, don’t you know I know it? — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 114, 1945
- Now he knew it: he could still battle, still hold his own and beat hell out of the stinkers that came into the poolroom[.] — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 58, 1947
- I think both of them are stinkers. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 273, 1949
- “I’ve been no good. I’ve been a real stinker.” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 102, 1962
- “I think you’re a stinker.” “What it is, stinker?” “You look it up in your dictionary, bud,” I said. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes to Rome, p. 30, 1963
- You little stinker. He’s given you everything. — As Good As It Gets, 1997
- a corpse that has begun to decompose and, as a result, smell US
- Water cops claimed that floaters somehow smelled even worse than stinkers on dry land. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 147, 1996
- an onion US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 820, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- a cigar US, 1907
So known because of the offensive smell the cigar emits. - "Here, have a guinea stinker. Special tobacco, cured in Torino.” — • Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 237, 1966
- The two old guys flanking Mazzone–Mustache Petes–had the shirt buttoned to the top but no tie–rumped black suits and puffing on guinea stinkers. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 101, 1975
- in dominoes, a player who forces the next player to draw by cutting him off US
- — Dominic Armanino, Dominoes, p. 20, 1959
- a strongly worded letter UK, 1912
- [A] real stinker can be sent back to the writer. — Margaret Shepherd, The Art of the Handwritten Note, p. 1, 2002
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