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

His son was born in September and is fed on a mixture of formula and breast milk.

From BBC

That’s because the amount of content fed to AI bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to “train” them is so immense that it’s almost impossible to pinpoint any particular content that has been infringed when the bot spits out an answer to a user’s query.

From Los Angeles Times

Most of those claiming their written content has been infringed assert chiefly that the databases known to have been fed to some AI models are known to include their books or other writing.

From Los Angeles Times

Captivated by the whale's story Norway made arrangements for the beluga to be monitored and fed.

From BBC

For more than a year, Bluesky has been the boat for left-leaning Twitter refugees who were so fed up with Musk that they beat the masses in deciding not to stick around on his platform.

From Slate