kitchen sink

noun

the final item imaginable on any extensive list of usually disparate items:
He packed everything for his trip except the kitchen sink.

kitchen-sink

[ kich-uhn-singk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements:
a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.

kitchen sink

a sink in a kitchen for washing dishes, vegetables, etc
everything but the kitchen sink
everything that can be conceived of
modifier denoting a type of drama or painting of the 1950s depicting the sordid aspects of domestic reality

1870–75, for literal sense

First recorded in 1940–45

I used to fantasize about emptying his Smirnoff bottle in the kitchen sink and filling it back up with water.

No one in this disturbing mini-kitchen sink drama ends up looking good.

A lot of crickets said the film was chaotic—kitchen-sink school of drama.

Is it hard writing the second season after putting everything and the kitchen sink into the first?

I just finished a film here in LA called Kitchen Sink, which is again something very new to me and very different.

Then I got my new watering-pot, filled it at the kitchen sink, and gently watered the hopeful earth.

S, Pipe to conduct cold water to a cock over the kitchen sink.

Came to my house to fix a pipe under the kitchen sink—wouldn't quit at six o'clock.

"Michael Doyle, the plumber, told me to come here and look at the kitchen sink," they heard.

The kitchen sink may also be of any type you prefer but let there be light where it is hung.

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