Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. very drunk.

1887		Lantern (N.O.) 12 Feb. 3: Dey had four bottles er booze and got stinkin’ ’fore two o’clock.
1930		(con. 1900s–10s) Dos Passos 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 100: Say, you certainly were stinkin’ last night.
1936		D. Parker ‘From the Diary of a New York Lady’ in Parker (1943) 137: Couldn’t have been more people absolutely stinking.
1942		W. Winchell On Broadway 6 Oct. [synd. col.] The Hays Office killed Cole Porter’s ‘Another Old Fashioned Please’ from a film. But permitted Cole’s ‘I Get Stinkin’ at the Club Savoy’.
1946		G. Gibson Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 78: I was also stinking.
1959		A. Sinclair Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 92: I’m drunk. I’m tight. I’m stinking.
1960		Mad mag. June 49: Pretty soon I got real stinking, till I fell down on the floor.
1967		J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 8: We can step off tonight and get rotten. And for a change tomorrow night we can get stinking.
1972		B. Wannan Folklore of the Aus. Pub 128: Screamer, Two-pot: a drinker who can’t hold his liquor—‘two pots and he’s stinking’.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 127–8: A state of intoxication, a.k.a. blind, bombed, cockeyed, crocked, loaded, looped, pickled, plastered, polluted, potted, smashed, stewed, stiff, stinking, stoned, wiped out, zonked.
1998		M. Newall ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in Indep. Weekend Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Laddes drunkke and stinkeing / Loades of booz and scoffe.
2001		K. Waterhouse Soho 98: ‘Rat-arsed.’ [...] ‘Inebriated, I should say.’ [...] ‘Oh, you mean blotto. That’s what we used to say when any of us got stinking.’ ‘Stinking blotto.’.

2. under the influence of drugs.

1949

Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

3. extremely wealthy [specifically abbr. stinking rich under stinking adv.].

1940		S. Longstreet Decade 96: Must go. Hell of a big deal in the morning. [...] Stinking radio muckamuck, building a horrid new house on Long Island.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 84: E’s stinkin. Drives a Roller.