"drain-like" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From drain + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more drain-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most drain-like",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "drainlike"
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 31",
          "text": "It is possible that the Waterloo & City line is nicknamed 'The Drain' because of the water pumped away, but there are other theories, the line being drain-like in so many ways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of drainlike"
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          "drainlike#English"
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  "word": "drain-like"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From drain + -like.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more drain-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most drain-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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      "expansion": "drain-like (comparative more drain-like, superlative most drain-like)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "drainlike"
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        }
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          "drainlike#English"
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