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wet jobs

wet jobs is the plural of wet job.

Meaning of wet job

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
  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

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Wet jobs is the plural of wet job.

Words near wet jobs in the dictionary

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