adj
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Water is wet.
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
noun
Liquid or moisture.
Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
Rainy weather.
Don't go out in the wet.
Rainy season. (often capitalized)
They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.
Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]
A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
An alcoholic drink.
‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’
verb
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.
'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automatically wetted, scrubbed and dried.
To make or become wet.
I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet
To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
to wet the baby’s head
[He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order to wet his commission […]