drain v.
to urinate; usu. in combs. below.
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 75: drain To urinate. |
In compounds
an act of urination.
Layer Cake 59: Need a good drain-off before I get in the motor. |
In phrases
(orig. Aus.) to urinate.
CUSS 218: Vein, drain the Urinate. | et al.||
Sl. U. | ||
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 Drain the main vein v. to urinate in a particularly speedy manner (probably to avoid being caught doing it in a public place), e.g. in a shop doorway or telephone box on the way home from the pub. | ||
Donnybrook [ebook] ‘Smells like some sour son of a bitch drained his vein back here’. |
to urinate.
Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 30: Just hang while I nick out the gents and drain the dragon. | ||
Sl. U. | ||
Age (Melbourne) 7 Dec. 130/5: Australia has much of which to be proud [...] drain the dragon, syphon the python, (point percy at the porcelain), having a liquid laugh down the great white telephone. | ||
Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 75: I tell her I have to drain the snake. [Ibid.] 195: I tell the girls I need to drain the lizard. | ||
Finders Keepers (2016) 29: Pull in there [...] I need to drain the dragon. |
see under lily n.
(Aus.) to masturbate.
Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 8: drain the snake: To masturbate. [Hand-written MS addition: climb the wire, flog the lizard]. |