gunk up AmE informal

I just have to gunk up my face some.

They avoid it for fear it will gunk up the works.

After no response from him, Negan orders his men to further gunk up their weapons, saying "we're going in."

Whilst some suggest using rice, cotton balls won't leave a starchy residue, and won't gunk up your device.

Oils from coffee beans can gunk up the inside of coffee makers and pricey espresso machines, rendering them no good to the last drop.

"The coating we have available would gunk up with your sweat pretty quickly, and be resistant to your fingers sliding across them," Mr. Theorin said.

Led by Associated Press Player of the Year Anthony Davis, the Wildcats (37-2) had an advantage at nearly every position, so the only way for Louisville to keep up with the Bluegrass racehorses was to gunk up the works.

"People began to notice that if [the crab] got wounded and it got infected, their blood would gunk up and coagulate," said Eric Hallerman, director of the Horseshoe Crab Research Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

The company says the product is DOT, EPA and CARB approved, and is free of any ingredients that might gunk up or damage a motor, and that its compatible with any engine that burns gasoline, including boats and back-up generators.