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dry
informal
1. No longer partaking of alcoholic beverages; sober. Said especially of recovering alcoholics. I had a real drinking problem in college, but I've been dry for nearly four years now. The holidays are the hardest part of the year to stay dry. A: "How did you get arrested for public intoxication? I thought you were dry." B: "I usually am. This is why."
2. Opposed to selling or consuming alcohol, as of a place or town. Ocean City is a dry town, so you have to bring booze with you when you come down. My parents really want me to pick that school because it's a dry campus. What are we supposed to do for fun on a Friday night in a dry town—play tiddlywinks?
DRY
An acronym for "don't repeat yourself," a principle used in computer programming with the intent of reducing repetitive or redundant code in software development. You need to make sure your software architecture is clear and well planned, which will result in nice, DRY code that is more efficiently written and more easily reused in other projects. If you take nothing else from this class, remember the importance of DRY code. No prospective employer wants have to untangle code that is repetitive or unclear. This is awfully confusing. I see the previous developer wasn't too concerned with writing DRY code, huh?
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dry
1. mod. sober; no longer alcohol intoxicated. How long will Ernie stay dry, do you think?
2. n. a prohibitionist; an abstainer from alcohol. The drys are in an increasing majority.
3. mod. having to do with a region where alcoholic beverages cannot be purchased. (Compare this with wet.) Some small towns are dry, but not many.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (as) dry as a bone
- (as) dry as a chip
- (as) dry as a dead dingo's donger
- (as) dry as a desert
- (as) dry as a nun's cunt
- (as) dry as a nun's nasty
- (as) dry as a Pommy's (bath) towel
- (as) dry as dust
- (as) exciting as watching paint dry
- a dry run
- be as dry as a bone
- be as exciting as watching paint dry
- be bone dry
- be home and dry
- be hung out to dry
- be like watching paint dry
- before the ink is dry
- bleed (someone or something) dry
- bleed (someone) white
- bleed somebody dry/white
- bleed someone dry
- bleed someone white
- bleed white
- bone dry
- come up dry
- DRY
- dry (one's) eyes
- dry as a bone
- dry as dust
- dry beg
- dry behind the ears
- dry off
- dry out
- dry party
- dry powder
- dry rot
- dry run
- dry spell
- dry up
- dry up and blow away
- Dry up!
- dry-as-dust
- dry-gulch
- dry-gulch (one)
- exciting as watching paint dry
- hang (one) out to dry
- hang out to dry
- hang somebody out to dry
- hang someone out to dry
- hardly dry behind the ears
- high and dry
- home and dry
- hung out to dry, to be
- keep (one's) powder dry
- keep one's powder dry
- keep powder dry
- keep your powder dry
- leave (one) high and dry
- leave (something) bone dry
- leave high and dry
- leave someone high and dry
- like watching paint dry
- make dry bones live
- milk (someone or something) dry
- milk it/something dry, to
- milk/suck somebody/something dry
- not a dry eye in the house
- not dry behind the ears
- on the dry
- put your faith in God, and keep your powder dry
- put your faith in God, but keep your powder dry
- Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
- put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry
- run dry
- squeeze (one) dry
- squeeze somebody dry
- suck (one) dry
- suck (someone or something) dry
- suck someone dry
- the ink isn't dry (on something)
- the well has run dry
- there wasn't a dry eye in the house
- trust in God and keep your powder dry
- trust in God, but keep your powder dry
- watching paint dry
- we never miss the water till the well runs dry
- we never miss the water until the well runs dry
- well's run dry, the
- wet behind the ears
- wet behind the ears, (still)
- you never miss the water till the well runs dry
- you never miss the water until the well runs dry