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n. (alternative spelling of wet work English)

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Wetwork is a euphemism for murder or assassination, alluding to spilling blood. The expression "wet work", as well as the similar "wet job", "wet affair", or "wet operation", are all calques of the euphemism used by the KGB for such activities, mokroye delo (wet dealings). These operations are reputed to have been handled at the KGB by Spetsbureau 13, colorfully known as the "Department of wet affairs" (Otdel mokrykh del).

The Russian expression "wet job" (мокрое дело) can be traced to at least the 19th century from Russian criminal slang ( fenya, muzyka) and originally meant robbery that involved murder, i.e., spilling blood.

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Vampires had a general habit of recruiting surrogate thugs for wetwork in broad daylight, and a bullet between the eyes would kill me just as well as some vampire ripping my lower jaw off.