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1. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

   I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.

2. Of weather or a day, rainy.

   It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

3. Made up of liquid or moisture.

   Water is wet.

4. informal Of a person, ineffectual.

   Don't be so wet.

5. slang Of a woman, sexually aroused.

   He got me all wet.

6. slang, of a person Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.

   That guy's wet; after all, he just started yesterday.

Synonyms

• covered with liquid damp, saturated, soaked
• of weather or a day damp, raining, rainy
• made up of liquid wetting
• ineffectual feeble, hopeless, useless
• inexperienced green, wet behind the ears

Wet could refer to:

• The condition of being liquid or being covered in liquid
• Wet, slang used when a swish is made in basketball.
• Wet (album), an album released in 1979 by Barbra Streisand
• The wets, moderate members of the British Conservative Party
• Wets (Prohibition)
• Phencyclidine (PCP), a dissociative anesthetic
• Wet (magazine), a magazine about "gourmet bathing" from the late 1970s
• Wat (food), wet, a type of stew used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine
• An area that allows the sale of alcohol, or an opponent of Prohibition
• Wet (video game), an upcoming video game

WET may stand for:

• Western European Time
• WET (WET Design), the company that created the Fountains of Bellagio
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a video game
• Wuest Expanded Translation, a translation of the New Testament by Kenneth Wuest.
• WET Web Tester, an automated web testing tool

everyone likes to be wet

See also

• Wetting, getting two different materials to adhere (stick) to each other.
• Wet Wet Wet, successful Scottish pop band of the 1980s and 1990s.
• Wet dream, seminal ejaculation during sleep.
• Wetback, derogatory term for a Mexican laborer who illegally enters the United States by swimming or wading the Rio Grande River.
• Wet-on-wet, a painting technique
• Wet nurse, a woman who breast feeds a baby that is not her own.
• Wet etching, removal of material by immersing the wafer in a liquid bath of chemical etchant.
• Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer general and politician.
• Wet & Wild: Slippery When Wet, ninth and last video in the Wet & Wild series of videos produced by Playboy magazine
• Wet bulb globe temperature, to measure the possible evaporation in natural ventilation conditions
• Wet artificial life, artificial life created in water (or other solvent) based chemical substrates.
• Wet clean, process of using strong acids to remove damage from the surface of semiconductors.
• Wetwork, euphemism for murder or assassination by governmental agencies that came into use during the Cold War.
• Wet grinder, popular tools in the South Indian kitchen used to make paste out of soaked grains and lentils.
• Wet season, seasons in which the average rainfall in a region is significantly increased.
• Subpreputial wetness, lanolin-like wetness commonly found in under the prepuce in most male and female individuals who have not undergone circumcision, as well as in the female vulva area.
• Wet cell, kind of electrochemical cell
• Adequately wet, environmental term referring to asbestos containing material that is sufficiently mixed or penetrated with liquid to prevent the release of particulates
• Wet-folded, an origami technique
• Wet electrons
• Wet dock, dock where the level of water is maintained
• Wet Congress, condition achieved in the 1932 election where a proper majority was set in the US congress to overturn the Volstead Act, ending prohibition.
• Wetting layer
• Wet sump, lubricating oil management design for four-stroke piston internal combustion engines which uses a built-in reservoir for oil
• Wet from Birth, fourth studio album by the indie rock band The Faint.
• Toad the Wet Sprocket, American folk pop band.
• Wet T-shirt contest, form of beauty contest.
• Wet and messy fetishism, form of sexual fetishism.
• Wet Mountain Valley, located in Custer County in south-central Colorado.
• Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1943 to 1946.
• Wetted aspect ratio (wing), good indication of the aerodynamic efficiency of an aircraft.
• Wet feet/dry feet, 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966.
• I Get Wet, debut album from metal solo artist Andrew W. K.
• Wet Tropics of Queensland, series of National Parks stretching for 450 km along the north east coast of Australia
• My Soul Is Wet, the only album by the band Mutha's Day Out.
• My Soul Is Wet (song), second track and the title track to the only album released by Mutha's Day Out.
• Wet Dream (album), first solo album by Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
• Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi's third and most commercially successful album.
• Wet Hot American Summer, 2001 feature film
• Wetted surface, a fluid mechanics term indicating the area of an object exposed to the fluid in question.