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kitch'en sink'

the final item imaginable on any extensive list of usually disparate items: He packed everything for his trip except the kitchen sink.

kitch•en-sink

Pronunciation: (kich'un-singk'), [key]
—adj.
marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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