Crossword clues for plughole
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plughole
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between her feet, water swirled down the plughole, taking red and black threads of blood and dirt with it.
▪ Down the plughole with it, this little glob of potential life, this putative devourer of the world's resources!
▪ Faced with such a threat ... spiders may be better off lurking beneath the plughole from now on.
▪ Incidence is analogous to water pouring into a sink and outcidence is analogous to water leaving the sink via the plughole.
▪ It left a tidemark of greasy bits as it sank away down the plughole.
▪ She washed spiders down the plughole, and felt guilty as hell about it.
▪ The big corporations, fearing their royalties would disappear down a Web plughole, ganged together to sue Napster.
Wiktionary
plughole
alt. (context chiefly AU NZ British English) The hole at the bottom of a bath, sink or tub, which can be blocked using a plug. n. (context chiefly AU NZ British English) The hole at the bottom of a bath, sink or tub, which can be blocked using a plug.
WordNet
plughole
n. a hole into which a plug fits (especially a hole where water drains away)
Usage examples of "plughole".
The Chinese are moving along the largest of these dry valleys, Chasma Boreale, which ends at crater Zw, nicknamed the Plughole.