kitchen-sink
adjective /ˌkɪtʃɪn ˈsɪŋk/
/ˌkɪtʃɪn ˈsɪŋk/
[only before noun]- (of plays, films, novels, etc.) dealing with ordinary life and ordinary people, especially when this involves describing the boring or difficult side of their livesCultureKitchen-sink drama is used particularly to describe British plays of the 1950s and 1960s that showed the conflicts or unpleasant quality of home life in a realistic way. Typical examples are John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Arnold Wesker's Roots.