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

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

Fed.

³

abbreviation for

1. Federal
2. Federation
3. Federated

Fed

⁴

/ fɛd /

noun

1. the Fed informal.
   the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

Word History and Origins

Origin of fed¹

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored:

   They were fed up with the same old routine.

Example Sentences

This sounds like sugar's keeping us fed, but added sugars are actually empty calories – they are bereft of any nutrients like vitamins or fibers.

From Salon

In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.

From Science Daily

Residents are fed up with sprawling tent encampments and the associated drug use and street crime.

From Los Angeles Times

“It is certainly sending a message that Californians across the political spectrum are fed up with higher costs and greater uncertainty on Main Street.”

From Los Angeles Times

They also found that these insecticides could affect organisms in the streams that are fed by those springs.

From Science Daily