stinking adj.2
1. very drunk.
![]() | Lantern (N.O.) 12 Feb. 3: Dey had four bottles er booze and got stinkin’ ’fore two o’clock. | |
![]() | (con. 1900s–10s) 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 100: Say, you certainly were stinkin’ last night. | |
![]() | ‘From the Diary of a New York Lady’ in Parker (1943) 137: Couldn’t have been more people absolutely stinking. | |
![]() | 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’. | |
![]() | Enemy Coast Ahead (1955) 78: I was also stinking. | |
![]() | Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 92: I’m drunk. I’m tight. I’m stinking. | |
![]() | Mad mag. June 49: Pretty soon I got real stinking, till I fell down on the floor. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Folklore of the Aus. Pub 128: Screamer, Two-pot: a drinker who can’t hold his liquor—‘two pots and he’s stinking’. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Indep. Weekend Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Laddes drunkke and stinkeing / Loades of booz and scoffe. | ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyght’ in|
![]() | 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.
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
3. extremely wealthy [specifically abbr. stinking rich under stinking adv.].
![]() | Decade 96: Must go. Hell of a big deal in the morning. [...] Stinking radio muckamuck, building a horrid new house on Long Island. | |
![]() | G’DAY 84: E’s stinkin. Drives a Roller. |