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wet play

wet play noun: structured play activities for young schoolchildren during inclement weather.

Noun

wet play (countable and uncountable, plural wet plays)

  1. (UK, uncountable) Structured play activities for young schoolchildren during inclement weather.
    • You should stay in since it's wet play.
    • It was a rainy day, so at breaktime, we had to stay in for wet play.2017, Jennifer Killick, Alex Sparrow and the Really Big Stink, Firefly Press
  2. (countable) A natural gas formation containing wet gas, meaning it has sizable amounts of liquid alkanes.
    • In the Delaware there is lots of water, especially brackish and produced. It’s a wet play, but there is very little water infrastructure.2018, Gregory Morris, quoting Josh Adler, “Three Pipes in a Ditch”, in Sourcewater
  3. Sexual activity involving liquids; either urolagnia or sploshing (wet and messy fetishism).

Forms of wet play

pluralwet plays

Questions about wet play

What does wet play mean?
Wet play means structured play activities for young schoolchildren during inclement weather.
What part of speech is wet play?
Wet play is a noun.
What is the plural of wet play?
The plural of wet play is wet plays.

Words near wet play in the dictionary

  1. wet pails
  2. wet palette
  3. wet palettes
  4. wet plate
  5. wet plates
  6. wet play
  7. wet porch
  8. wet porches
  9. wet rag
  10. wet rags
  11. wet reckless

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