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Meaning of wet the baby's head | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To celebrate the birth of a baby by drinking alcohol.

figuratively

Examples

“He goes off to the pub with his mates to drink the time away, and after a phone call to the hospital that tells him he is now a father he 'wets the baby's head' with yet more alcohol.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

wet the bed wet the other eye wet the shamrock wet through wet-blanket wet-blanketed