fed

• IPA^(key): /fɛd/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Clipping of federal.

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3]:

     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.

From federation.

fed (plural feds)

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

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

1. Clipping of federate.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fed

1. simple past and past participle of feed

• DEF, Def., DfE, FDE, def

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

• IPA^(key): [feˀð], [feðˀ]

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")

From Old Norse fit.

• IPA^(key): [feð]

fed n (singular definite feddet, plural indefinite fed)

1. skein
2. clove

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [feːˀð], [feðˀ]

fed

1. imperative of fede

fed f (uncountable)

1. abbreviation of federatie

• föd (dialectal)

Uncertain. According to different sources:

• From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pentɜ- (“to shut, cover”).^[1][2]
• From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pintä- (“to close, cover”). Likely cognate with Finnish pinne and Udmurt поди (poďi).^[3]

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

fed

1. (transitive) to cover

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fed

(With verbal prefixes):

• fedd (“to chide, reprimand, scold”)

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

fed

1. alternative form of fede

• IPA^(key): /fed/

fed (nominative plural feds)

1. federation

• fedalän (“federal state, Bundesstaat”)