Meaning of Wet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Liquid or moisture.
   countable, uncountable
2. Rainy weather.
   countable, uncountable
3. Rainy season. (often capitalized)
   Australia, countable, uncountable
4. A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
   British, UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable
5. An alcoholic drink.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
6. One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
   US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
7. A tyre for use in wet weather.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
8. A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
   colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.”

“Don't go out in the wet.”

“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.”

“2015, David Andrew, The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, Csiro Publishing, Appendix B, page 380 https://books.google.ca/books?id=XBnyCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'the Wet') that may last from December to April […] . The Wet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.”

“‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’”

“The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.”

“Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.”

“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.”

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