Common Meanings
- Prohibiting alcohol (see Dry county)
- Dryness (taste), the lack of sugar in a drink, especially an alcoholic one (not to be confused with the meaning listed above)
- Dryness (medical)
- Dryness (drought)
- "Dry", a style of writing
- Deadpan, dry humor
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