wet
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adj (English)
1. (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.Examples: "This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel."
2. (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.Examples: "That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday."Synonyms: green, wet behind the earsslang
3. (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.Examples: "He got me all wet."Synonyms: horny, moist, ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, desirousslangvulgar
4. (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.Examples: ""Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … ""; "I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness."; "Don’t be so wet."Synonyms: feeble, hopeless, useless, dripBritishslang
5. (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.Examples: "The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities."retronym
6. (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.Examples: "c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]"Synonyms: inebriated, soused, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the windarchaicslang
noun (English)
1. (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)Examples: "They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words."; "Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]"; "He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before the Wet had properly settled itself over the plains again."Australiacountableuncountable
2. (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.Antonyms: dryBritishUKcountablederogatoryuncountable
3. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.Examples: "‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’"colloquialcountableuncountable
4. (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.Examples: "The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half."UScolloquialcountableuncountable
5. (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.Examples: "Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning."countablein-pluraluncountable
6. (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.Examples: "Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'."; "Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them."colloquialcountablederogatoryuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.Examples: "There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent."; "'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automatically wetted, scrubbed and dried."Synonyms: drench, get wet, soak, sogtransitive
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.Examples: "I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet"Synonyms: dampen, dew, get wet, moistenintransitivetransitive
3. (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.Examples: "Johnny wets the bed several times a week."; "She was laughing so hard she wet her pants."transitive
4. (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.transitive
5. (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.Examples: "to wet the baby’s head"; "[He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order to wet his commission […]"informaltransitive
6. (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.Examples: "I'm coming to get ya, I'm coming to get ya / Spitting out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya"Synonyms: do away with, do violence to, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dereMulticultural-London-EnglishUSslang
phrase (English)
1. (software engineering) Acronym of write everything twice, a humorous backronym coined to serve as the antonym of DRY, punning on the opposition of wet and dry.abbreviationacronymalt-of
adj (English)
1. (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.Antonyms: DRY
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