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draining the dragon

draining the dragon is the present participle and gerund of drain the dragon.

Meaning of drain the dragon

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) To urinate.
    • 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...1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
    Synonyms:
    urinate

Questions about draining the dragon

What is draining the dragon the present participle and gerund of?
Draining the dragon is the present participle and gerund of drain the dragon.

Words near draining the dragon in the dictionary

  1. draining
  2. draining away
  3. draining board
  4. draining boards
  5. draining out
  6. draining the dragon
  7. draining the lizard
  8. draining the main vein
  9. draining the python
  10. draining the snake
  11. draining the swamp

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