What is "kitchen sink"

attested by 1824. Phrase everything but (or and) the kitchen sink is 1944, from World War II armed forces slang, in reference to intense bombardment.\n\nOut for blood, our Navy throws everything but the kitchen sink at Jap vessels, warships and transports alike.

[Shell fuel advertisement, "Life," Jan. 24, 1944]

n. 1 (&lit kitchen sink English) A sink in a kitchen used for washing dishes and preparing food. 2 (context idiomatic English) A miscellany or a miscellaneous item.

n. a sink in a kitchen

Kitchen sink may refer to:

• A sink in a kitchen for washing dishes, vegetables, etc.
• Kitchen Sink, a 1989 short film by Alison Maclean
• Kitchen sink chemistry, a synonym for amateur chemistry
• Kitchen sink department, the Percussion section of an orchestra
• Kitchen Sink Press, an independent comic book publisher
• Kitchen sink realism, a British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• Kitchen sink syndrome, also known as "scope creep" in project management
• Kitchen sink regression, a usually pejorative term for a regression analysis which uses a long list of possible independent variables
• Kitchen Sink (film), a 2014 film
• Kitchen Sink, a song by American band Twenty One Pilots