# What's the meaning of the term "wet seal"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-wet-seal/921695 "2020-09-27T21:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-wet-seal/921695/1 "2020-09-27T21:46:38Z")

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I saw [this picture](https://greenlemon.me/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/397tf7r9x1-400x210.jpg) online. It’s a note where a woman is quitting her job with the caption saying “My coworker went all wet seal on our boss today”.

I tried googling this but all I could find were a lot of sexual slangs, which clearly isn’t relevant, and that there’s a clothing store chain called Wet Seal. But this doesn’t explain what going wet seal on somebody means in this context.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-wet-seal/921695/2 "2020-09-27T21:55:59Z")

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Looks like this is the answer: [Wet Seal Workers Leave a Sign](https://www.businessinsider.com/wet-seal-workers-leave-a-sign-2015-1?r=US&IR=T#:~:text=The%20teen%20retailer%20Wet%20Seal,sign%20was%20posted%20on%20Reddit).

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-wet-seal/921695/3 "2020-09-28T01:48:29Z")

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Okay, so it was a reference to the store chain.

Thank you.