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fed

1

[ fed ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.


fed

2

[ fed ]

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Fed

3

[ fed ]

noun

  1. the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
  2. the Federal Reserve Board.

fed.

4

abbreviation for

  1. federal.
  2. federated.
  3. federation.

Fed.

5

abbreviation for

  1. Federal.

fed

1

/ fɛd /

noun

  1. slang.
    an agent of the FBI
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


fed

2

/ fɛd /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of feed
  2. fed to death or fed to the teeth or fed up to the teeth or fed to the back teeth or fed up to the back teeth informal.
    bored or annoyed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Fed.

3

abbreviation for

  1. Federal
  2. Federation
  3. Federated
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Fed

4

/ fɛd /

noun

  1. the Fed informal.
    the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fed1

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored:

    They were fed up with the same old routine.

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Example Sentences

It just really fed into a lot of pathologies I had going for me.

His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.

The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.

“In a country that once fed the world, children were dying of malnourishment,” writes Ivereigh.

Detainees were described, in graphic detail, being rectally fed against their will.

At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.

Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.

All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies.

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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