wetwork
See also: wet work
English
Etymology
Noun
wetwork (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of wet work
- 1997, Robert Littell, Walking back the cat:
- From the very beginning, when he and Dewey had conceived the consortium and the operation that would make wetwork history, he had planned to be present...
- 2001, Christopher Golden, Rick Hautala, Brain Trust
- Once upon a time, Wilcox had been reluctant to take wetwork assignments, national security be damned. But he had been married then.
- 2004, John Dalmas, The Second Coming
- Some little task — some wetwork you'd rather hire out than do yourself?