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feet wet

feet wet phrase: flying over water.

Phrase

feet wet

  1. Flying over water.
    • Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story, page 196
    • Three minutes later, at 2015, Captain Brindel entered the CIC and was notified of TN 2202 “feet wet” (aviation terminology meaning that an aircraft is over water) in the northern Persian Gulf and heading south.1997, Jeffrey L. Levinson, Randy L. Edwards, Missile Inbound: The Attack on the Stark in the Persian Gulf, page 71
    Antonyms:
    feet dry

Antonyms of feet wet

Questions about feet wet

What does feet wet mean?
Feet wet means flying over water.
What part of speech is feet wet?
Feet wet is a phrase.

Words near feet wet in the dictionary

  1. feet dry
  2. feet first
  3. feet of clay
  4. feet on the ground
  5. feet per second
  6. feet wet
  7. feet-first
  8. feetage
  9. feetages
  10. feetball
  11. feete

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