stinking up the joint

To do something really badly. "To stink" means to do badly, "joint" here means a place. "Stink up the joint" is an exaggerated form meaning you "stink" so badly the whole place starts to stink, as if you've taken a shit.

"Oh no, Magnus! He blundered and lost his Queen! Okay, now I don't feel bad about my awful last game! Magnus is also stinking up the joint just like me today!" -- Hikaru Nakamura, on a stream in an online chess tournament, 13.11.2025

by __Vano November 20, 2025

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ruck singing

Any noise that is beyond unbearable.

Zachary: "Hey, man, did you hear the sound that that cat made when you sliced off it's tail with a zigsaw?!?"
Andrw: "Yeah, it was ruck singing up until the point that it bled out."

by Andrw37 January 29, 2008

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Pre-Singing

When you're singing along with the radio to a song you like, you start singing before the first verse starts. Adverse effects include but are not limited to: trying to sing loud so people don't notice, then quickly changing the station, or the disapproval of your friends. (Usually in the form of laughter.)

Sal: Ticking away the moments that make up...
Brendan: Shut the fuck up you tool, you're pre-singing
Lee: HaHaHaHaHa, faggot!

by SuperGhillie July 28, 2011

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Class Singing

When you're in a class where everyone is talking and you start quietly singing to yourself. The teacher then yells silence and you keep on quietly singing revealing to yourself and the person next to you how bad you sounded.

James "I got caught class singing today by a hot girl next to me"

Mike "that would suck dude"

by Doofasaurus-Rex April 28, 2013

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good stinking

Since ancient times stinking has been regarded as a quality of great prestige and distinction (also see the origins of that word), and good stinking is a customary praise for someone who had provided stinking for the advancement of a cause or the solution of a problem.

-Through deductive reasoning and my medical knowledge, I concluded which drug must have been adminstered.
-Good stinking, Watson.
-Thanks. I'll open the window.

by felixh March 3, 2017

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