feds

See also: FEDs

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛdz/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛdz

Noun

feds

  1. plural of fed
  2. (US, Australia, slang, government) The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
    • 2016 February 10, Peter Martin, “State governments are about to hike up taxes”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎[1]:
      Which leaves the states in an awful hole. The Feds have ripped $80 billion out of their budgets over the next 10 years.
  3. (US, MLE, slang) Law enforcement; cops.
    Look out! Here come the Feds!

Verb

feds

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fed

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

feds n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of fed
  2. indefinite genitive plural of fed
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