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wet
noun- a politician with middle-of-the-road views on controversial issues, especially (during the 1980s) a Conservative not entirely supportive of Margaret Thatcher’s monetarist policies UK, 1931
- in auto racing, a tyre designed for racing in the rain US
- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, p. 216, 1992
- a drink of an alcoholic beverage UK
C10 wæt, first recorded in slang as “heavy-wet” (malt liquor). - There the barman builds him several drinks–snorts or wets are what Rangers call them. — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 117, 1982
- alcoholic beverages UK
Gulf war usage. - — American Speech, p. 404, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
- an act of urination UK, 1925
- a conventional cigarette infused with embalming fluid US
- American buzz chasers are buying cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid in their search for a new high. The “wets” or “illys” are $20 (£13) and are said to induce a feeling of invincibility. — Mixmag, p. 37, December 2001
- rain; wet weather US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 26, 1945
- a Mexican national illegally present in the US US, 1979
Shortened form of WETBACKmojado, drawn from the image of swimming across the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas. Derogatory. - “These were Mexicans. Local wets, by the accent.” — Carl Hiaasen, Basket Case, p. 281, 2002
▶ the wet
the wet season in Australia’s tropical north AUSTRALIA, 1908- The troops kept pointing out meeting grounds where big fights are staged in the “wet”. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 279, 1947
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 96, 1977
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