English Dictionary

wet one's beak

verb

(idiomatic) To drink a beverage. / (idiomatic, gangster slang) To take one's share from the financial proceeds of illicit activity.

I'm going to wet my beak with a cold beer after work.

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To drink a beverage.

Rinaldo . . . is represented as a gluttonous feeder, and rather disposed to quarrel over his meat; liking also to ‘wet his beak’ in generous liquor.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, gangster slang) To take one's share from the financial proceeds of illicit activity.

Giorgio, the Don said, . . . our Family will now serve only as financial advisors to all the other Families. . . . [W]e must protect everyone's money, for which they will let us wet our beaks.