kitchen sink
A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
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Born ~1924 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
So you don’t touch anything ever physically? You use hand sanitizer every day multiple times a day? Do you meticulously clean your kitchen sink every day and sanitize it?
well he did clean my pipes but i'm easy i had to get a drain snaked saturday, my washer / dryer combo's lint collector broke so it flushed a bunch of lint into my plumbing and backed up my kitchen sink, ughhh washe…
Great. So why expect them to allow a court expansion? Or to accept the impeachment of Roberts or any of the rest? You seem to be in utter despair. I say, throw the kitchen sink at them.
Mark E. Smith's lyrics for Iceland have to be some of my favourite in The Fall catalogue, a little bit Lovecraft, a little M.R. James, and a little kitchen sink bluntness.
i'm my catastrophe at my kitchen sink.
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A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
The kitchen sink was piled high with dirty dishes.
“So you don’t touch anything ever physically? You use hand sanitizer every day multiple times a day? Do you meticulously clean your kitchen sink every day and sanitize it?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“well he did clean my pipes but i'm easy i had to get a drain snaked saturday, my washer / dryer combo's lint collector broke so it flushed a bunch of lint into my plumbing and backed up my kitchen sink, ughhh washer / dryer repair coming tomorrow”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Great. So why expect them to allow a court expansion? Or to accept the impeachment of Roberts or any of the rest? You seem to be in utter despair. I say, throw the kitchen sink at them.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Mark E. Smith's lyrics for Iceland have to be some of my favourite in The Fall catalogue, a little bit Lovecraft, a little M.R. James, and a little kitchen sink bluntness.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“i'm my catastrophe at my kitchen sink.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally, derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
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(painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school.
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