Kitchen Sink

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A thing that includes nearly everything, often more than it should. In engineering slang, kitchen-sink design usually means too many features or concerns have been dumped into one place.

    In plain English: Something overloaded with too many included features or concerns.

    Example: "The admin endpoint became a kitchen sink of export, retry, override, and debug actions that should never have shared the same interface."

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