drain the dragon
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[edit]Verb
[edit]drain the dragon (third-person singular simple present drains the dragon, present participle draining the dragon, simple past and past participle drained the dragon)
- (slang, of men) To urinate.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
- 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.
- 1995, New York Magazine, volume 28, number 37, page 23:
- Have the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street?
Synonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:urinate.