Usually means: Left stranded without any help.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word high and dry:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. high and dry: Merriam-Webster
  2. high and dry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high and dry: Collins English Dictionary
  4. high and dry: Wordnik
  5. high and dry: Wiktionary
  6. High and dry, high and dry: Dictionary.com
  7. High and Dry (disambiguation), High and Dry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. high and dry: FreeDictionary.org
  9. High and dry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. high and dry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high and dry, high and dry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (high and dry)

adjective:  Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
adjective:  (idiomatic) Abandoned, stranded, helpless.
adjective:  (derogatory, idiomatic) Associated with the high church (the Church of England and other Anglican traditions, in reference to their "high" political position in England and "dry" and austere mode of worship), as opposed to the "low and slow" Evangelical party and the "broad and shallow" Broad Church.
adjective:  (US, idiomatic, slang, of a sandwich) With no condiments.

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