sink n.
1. a drunkard.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Aug. 14/1: You were such a noble doer, such a persevering sink – / Fancy you to be a quitter when the world is full of drink. | |
| DSUE (1984) 1072/2: mid-C.19–20. |
2. (UK Und.) a supposedly legitimate business that used to facilitate money-laundering.
| Viva La Madness 32: What you need is a ‘sink’, meaning quite literally somewhere you can sink your schwarzgeld into the system. |
In compounds
the vagina .
| ‘The Sink-Hole’ in New Cockalorum Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) II 11: He opened her dirty sink-hole wide, / And scraped the bottom as well as each side; / And when he had rummaged each corner about, / With his tools in his hand he quite tired crep [sic] out. |