Wetwork
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Wetwork or wet work is a euphemism for murder or assassination, alluding to spilling blood. It is popularly attributed to the KGB and their broad euphemism for such activities, mokroye delo (wet job).[1]
The Russian expression "wet job" (мокрое дело) can be traced to at least the 19th century[2][3] from Russian criminal slang (fenya, muzyka) and originally meant robbery that involved murder, i.e., spilling the blood, hence the term.
[edit] References
- ^ Henry S.A. Becket (1986) "The Dictionary of Espionage: Spookspeak into English"
- ^ Музыка или словарь карманников, т. е. столичных воров [сост. в 1842, доп. Максимовым С. В. в 1869] // Сибирь и каторга / Максимов С. В. [публ.]. СПб., 1871 (Russian)
- ^ Дюбягин Ю. (1991) Толковый словарь уголовных жаргонов, Moscow, Inter-Omni, ISBN 5-85945-002-8(Russian)
