wet the baby's head

verb

To celebrate the birth of a baby by drinking alcohol.

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Meanings

verbwet the baby's head (third-person singular simple present wets the baby's head, present participle wetting the baby's head, simple past and past participle wet the baby's head or wetted the baby's head)

present singular third person wets the baby's head · participle present wetting the baby's head · participle past wetted the baby's head · past wetted the baby's head

  1. figurativelyTo 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
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wet the baby's head,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wet%20the%20baby's%20head.

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