dries

Noun

dry (plural drys or dries)

1. The process by which something is dried.
   • This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
2. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
   • The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
3. An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
   • Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
4. (Australia, with-definite-article) The dry season.
   • […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 91
5. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
6. Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
   • All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album)

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