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wet the baby's head en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (figuratively) To celebrate the birth of a baby by drinking alcohol.
    • He goes off to the pub with his mates to drink the time away, and after a phone call to the hospital that tells him he is now a father he 'wets the baby's head' with yet more alcohol. 2011, Sheila Kitzinger, Rediscovering Birth:

Forms

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wets the baby's head Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wetting the baby's head Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wet the baby's head Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wet the baby's head Tense=Past lexicographic
wetted the baby's head Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wetted the baby's head Tense=Past lexicographic