plughole
/ˈplʌɡhəʊl
/noun British
A hole at the lowest point of a bath, basin, or sink, down which waste water drains away and which can be stopped with a plug.I scrubbed the bath out with bleach; I poured it down the plugholes of the bath and sinks, then took the bag out to the car as well....
- To explore this to its logical conclusion, every time you pull your bath plug you see spontaneous order emerge in the way water spirals down the plughole, instead of simply plunging in an every-molecule-for-itself fashion.
- Any bath water we don't use over 24 hours is let down the plughole and the bath is washed before we collect that day's ‘fresh’ grey water.
Phrases
go down the plughole