STINKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stinker mean? 

• STINKER (noun)
  The noun STINKER has 3 senses:

1. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

2. anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)

3. an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

  Familiarity information: STINKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STINKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bum; crumb; dirty dog; git; lowlife; puke; rat; rotter; scum bag; skunk; so-and-so; stinker; stinkpot

Context example:

the British call a contemptible person a 'git'

Hypernyms ("stinker" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stinker" is a kind of...):

thing (an entity that is not named specifically)

Derivation:

stink (smell badly and offensively)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lemon; stinker

Hypernyms ("stinker" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

stink (be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance)