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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

drain the dragon en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (of men, slang) To urinate.
    • Have the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street? 1995, New York Magazine, volume 28, number 37, page 23:
    • Officer O'Bannion began to have a terrible yet weirdly plausible idea: that this strange little man had killed his wife with a pair of hedge-clippers and then somehow dissolved her body with drain-cleaner—and all because she wouldn't get the hell out of the bathroom while he was trying to drain the dragon. 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
draining the dragon Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drains the dragon Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drained the dragon Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drained the dragon Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

urinate