adj

• (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
  "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."
• (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
  "That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday."
• (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
  "He got me all wet."
• (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
  ""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 … ""

noun

• (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
  "They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words."
• (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
• (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
  "‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’"
• (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
  "The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half."

verb

• (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  "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."
• (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
  "I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet"
• (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
  "Johnny wets the bed several times a week."
• (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.

phrase

• (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.