"drain the dragon" meaning in English

See drain the dragon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: drains the dragon [present, singular, third-person], draining the dragon [participle, present], drained the dragon [participle, past], drained the dragon [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} drain the dragon (third-person singular simple present drains the dragon, present participle draining the dragon, simple past and past participle drained the dragon)
  1. (slang, of men) To urinate. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Bodily functions Synonyms: urinate

Download JSON data for drain the dragon meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drains the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "draining the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drained the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drained the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "drain the dragon (third-person singular simple present drains the dragon, present participle draining the dragon, simple past and past participle drained the dragon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bodily functions",
          "orig": "en:Bodily functions",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, New York Magazine, volume 28, number 37, page 23",
          "text": "Have the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To urinate."
      ],
      "id": "en-drain_the_dragon-en-verb-u~WFOiiv",
      "links": [
        [
          "urinate",
          "urinate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, of men) To urinate."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of men"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "urinate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drain the dragon"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drains the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "draining the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drained the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drained the dragon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "drain the dragon (third-person singular simple present drains the dragon, present participle draining the dragon, simple past and past participle drained the dragon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English alliterative phrases",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Bodily functions"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, New York Magazine, volume 28, number 37, page 23",
          "text": "Have the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To urinate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "urinate",
          "urinate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, of men) To urinate."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of men"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "urinate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drain the dragon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.