drain-like

English

Etymology

From drain +‎ -like.

Adjective

drain-like (comparative more drain-like, superlative most drain-like)

1. Alternative form of drainlike
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:

     It is possible that the Waterloo & City line is nicknamed 'The Drain' because of the water pumped away, but there are other theories, the line being drain-like in so many ways.