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  • noun Alternative spelling of wet work.

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wet +‎ work

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Examples

  • Now one final thing which I wish to say on the matter of warriors arising spontaneously from our midst is that the Jews have had an amazing success in finding fellow Jews to do their necessary 'wetwork'.

    1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2008

  • A teleporting ace agent wetwork specialist finally gets to the Nur.

    Superhero Prose Fiction: Wild Cards - 18 Inside Straight Blue Tyson 2008

  • This story is basically a special ops/wetwork style story, and not what you would normally think an inquisition style story might be about.

    REVIEW: Ravenor by Dan Abnett 2008

  • Whitman, a former Special Forces op whose last wetwork was back in the bug-out from Somalia, has long shown a dogged fealty to the truth: here, for example, planting stories of Iranian "threats" to U.S. boats in the powderkeg of the Strait of Hormuz; or here, early on in the mass murder in Iraq, ardently peddling the Pentagon's knowingly false stories about the "heroic" rescue of Jessica Lynch.

    Big Brass Bull: Pentagon Deceit on Media Manipulation Confirmed 2009

  • Those were the good ole days when the wetwork of building the empire was primarily done by the use of the U.S. military rather than the CIA, the economic hitmen and mercenary armies like Blackwater.

    As General Smedley D. Butler Said: War Is A Racket 2008

  • A teleporting ace agent wetwork specialist finally gets to the Nur.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Wilson said, Hull was our number one wetwork op for almost twenty years.

    Old Man with a Cane Steve Perry 2007

  • However, Bush was always keen to get the details about the agency's wetwork, administration officials assured the Post.

    Fatal Vision: The Deeper Evil Behind the Detainee Bill 2006

  • But when I said I didn't want to do any more wetwork, that was the next part of the test.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

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    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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