wet dream

plural wet dreams · alternative nonstandard rare wetdream

1. An erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.

   His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.

   1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22

2. broadlyThe orgasm in such a dream.
3. figurativelyAn exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.

   Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.

   1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11

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   The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.

   2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct

present singular third person wet dreams · participle present wet dreaming · participle past wet dreamed · past wet dreamed · participle past wet dreamt · past wet dreamt · alternative nonstandard rare wetdream

1. intransitiveTo produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).

   2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33, you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be

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   He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]

   1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99

   […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,

   1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85

   That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about.

   1997, Nik Cohn, Need, New York: Knopf, page 137

2. transitiveTo have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.

   A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams.

   2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163

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   […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.

   1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136

   […] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.

   2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71