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wets one's beak

wets one's beak is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wet one's beak.

Meaning of wet one's beak

Verb

wet one's beak (third-person singular simple present wets one's beak, present participle wetting one's beak, simple past and past participle wet one's beak or wetted one's beak)

  1. (idiomatic) To drink a beverage.
    • Rinaldo . . . is represented as a gluttonous feeder, and rather disposed to quarrel over his meat; liking also to ‘wet his beak’ in generous liquor.1876, “The Charlemagne Romances: Part 4—Pulci,”, in The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, volume 22, page 467
  2. (idiomatic, gangster slang) To take one's share from the financial proceeds of illicit activity.
    • "Giorgio," the Don said, ". . . our Family will now serve only as financial advisors to all the other Families. . . . [W]e must protect everyone's money, for which they will let us wet our beaks."1996, Mario Puzo, The Last Don (2004 Random House edition), p. 5 (Google preview)
    Synonyms:
    get a piece of the pie, get a piece of the action

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Wets one's beak is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wet one's beak.

Words near wets one's beak in the dictionary

  1. wetroom
  2. wetrooms
  3. wetrot
  4. wets
  5. wets down
  6. wets one's beak
  7. wets one's clay
  8. wets one's pants
  9. wets one's whistle
  10. wets oneself
  11. wets out

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