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wet job

wet job noun: a covert assassination performed by government operatives.

Noun

wet job (plural wet jobs)

  1. (euphemistic) A covert assassination performed by government operatives.
    • Like the Navy SEALs (who often work in conjunction with the Delta Force), Delta Force can go anywhere, anytime; they just leave the wet jobs to SEAL Team 6-the navy's version of Delta Force.2003, Robert Young Pelton, Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition (Robert Young Pelton the World's Most Dangerous Places), Collins, →ISBN, page 112
    • Being a shocked witness in Lisbon to the Carnivore's last bloody wet job2004, Gayle Lynds, The Coil: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 53
  2. (figuratively) A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.
    • The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the LRB – saw Hitchens’s wet job on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992). As he does with many of his subjects, he walked straight up to this one and dropped the guillotine, likening the book under review – an authorised biography –...2011, Jeremy Harding, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII

Examples of wet job in a sentence

  • Instead, everything about his style announced wet job.2006, Gayle Lynds, The Last Spymaster, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 30:
  • The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the LRB – saw Hitchens’s wet job on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992).2011, Jeremy Harding, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

Forms of wet job

pluralwet jobs

Questions about wet job

What does wet job mean?
Wet job means a covert assassination performed by government operatives.
How do you use wet job in a sentence?
Instead, everything about his style announced wet job.
What part of speech is wet job?
Wet job is a noun.
What is the plural of wet job?
The plural of wet job is wet jobs.

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