drain the dragon
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Meaning · English
To urinate.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
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
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “drain the dragon” mean?
To urinate.
Is “drain the dragon” formal or informal?
drain the dragon is generally slang.