fed

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd
• IPA^(key): /fɛd/

Etymology 1

Clipping of federal.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

1. (US, derogatory, slang) A federal government officer or official, especially an FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.

   That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!

   1. (Australia, slang) A federal police officer; an officer of the AFP.
2. (London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
   • 2022, 15 March, Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching (in Metro newspaper)

     Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.

3. (Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government.

Synonyms

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of federation.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

1. (weightlifting, colloquial) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.

Derived terms

• e-fed

Etymology 3

Verb

fed

1. simple past and past participle of feed

Derived terms

Anagrams

• DEF, Def., DfE, FDE, def

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse feitr (“fat”), from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [feˀð], [feðˀ]

Adjective

fed

1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body), obese
2. fatty, rich
3. great, smashing, cool
4. (of a typeface) bold
5. (nominally, slang) joint

   at ryge en fed

   to smoke a joint (a "fat one")

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [feð]

Noun

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)

1. skein
2. clove

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [feːˀð], [feðˀ]

Verb

fed

1. imperative of fede

Dutch

Noun

fed f (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of federatie.

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• föd (dialectal)

Etymology

According to different sources:

1. From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pentɜ- (“to shut, cover”).
2. From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pintä- (“to close, cover”). Likely cognate with Finnish pinne and Udmurt поди (poďi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛd]
• Hyphenation: fed
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

fed

1. (transitive) to cover

   See synonyms at Thesaurus:fed.

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

References

Further reading

• fed in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

fed

1. Alternative form of fede

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fed/

Noun

fed (nominative plural feds)

1. federation

Declension

Derived terms

• fedalän (“federal state, Bundesstaat”)