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Definitions of wets in various dictionaries:
noun - wetness caused by water
verb - cause to become wet
verb - make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
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| Sprays |
| Throws water on |
| Soaks |
| Dampens |
| Makes damp, as the infield dirt |
| Anti-prohibitionists |
| Prohibitionists' foes |
| Hoses down |
| Volstead's opponents |
| Moistens |
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During the 1980s, members of the Conservative Party in Britain who opposed some of the more hard-line policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were often referred to by their opponents as "wets". Thatcher coined the usage in 197980, with the meaning of feeble, lacking hardness, or willing to compromise with the unions. The label was especially applied to senior members of her government who were nevertheless outside Thatcher's inner circle and who expressed opposition to her strict monetarist policies designed to tackle inflation and her cuts to public spending.Hugo Young identifies the most important "inner" wets as Jim Prior, Peter Walker, and Sir Ian Gilmour, as well as Lord Carrington and Norman St John-Stevas. The "outer" wets were more fragmented and less visible. They included Francis Pym, Michael Heseltine and Lord Hailsham. * Gilmour was the most outspoken, delivering a lecture at Cambridge in February 1980 where he argued: * "In the Conservative view, economic liberalism à la |