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See also: Fed, FED, -fed, and Fed.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Clipping of federal.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A federal government officer or official.
    That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
    • 2020 July 12, PNW Youth Liberation Front, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 12 July 2020:
      A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it.
      Holy fuck, I’m speechless.
    • 2020 July 12, Robert Evans, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:
      Hi. I should have made this clearer earlier. I will now. I have worked with feds. I have worked with foreign special forces who may well have been trained by the guys shooting at you from the courthouse.
      These are not cops. They are not even similar.
  2. (MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer
    • 2022 March 15, “Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching”, in Metro‎:
      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.
    Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From federation.

Noun

fed (plural feds)

  1. (weightlifting, slang) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
  2. Clipping of federation.
Derived terms

Verb

fed (third-person singular simple present feds, present participle fedding, simple past and past participle fedded)

  1. Clipping of federate.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fed

  1. simple past and past participle of feed
Derived terms

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Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

fed (neuter fedt, plural and definite singular attributive fede)

  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
More information positive, comparative ...

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fit. Compare German Fitze and Greek πεζός (pezós).

Pronunciation

Noun

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)

  1. skein
  2. clove
    Synonym: hvidløgsfed
Inflection
More information neuter gender, singular ...

Etymology 3

A nominalization of the adjective.

Noun

fed c or n

  1. (slang) a joint
  2. (slang) marijuana, hashish

Etymology 4

From Old Danish fith, from Old Norse fit.

Noun

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)

  1. low isthmus; narrow headland

Declension

More information neuter gender, singular ...

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [feːˀð], [feðˀ]

Verb

fed

  1. imperative of fede
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Dutch

Noun

fed f (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. abbreviation of federatie

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