rank 3. having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar. 4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste. 6. highly offensive; disgusting: a rank sight of carnage.
Did you know that Leslie Nielsen's brother was once the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada? That before he was known for comedy, he was the go-to heavy in almost every US TV Drama of the 60's? That he was the Captain of the original Poseidon? The lead astronaut in Forbidden Planet? Do you think a career as long, storied and varied as his can be boiled down to a 4-word pun? Well, do you?