kitchen-sinky

Meaning

Adjective

• Inclusive of too wide a variety of features or items, typically with a resulting trade-off in efficiency or usefulness.
• Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

Origin

• From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase [[w:Kitchen sink realism.