"fed" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɛd/ Audio: en-us-fed.ogg [US] Forms: feds [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: Clipping of federal. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|federal}} Clipping of federal Head templates: {{en-noun}} fed (plural feds)
  1. (US, derogatory, slang) A federal government officer or official, especially a FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent. Tags: US, derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-fed-en-noun-lEgyNn7~ Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 37 13 17
  2. (US, derogatory, slang) A federal government officer or official, especially a FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, or DEA agent.
    (Australia, slang) A federal police officer; an officer of the AFP.
    Tags: Australia, US, derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-fed-en-noun-2bHvorlp Categories (other): American English, Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 37 13 17
  3. (London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer. Tags: London, Multicultural-London-English, especially, slang Synonyms (police officer): police officer
    Sense id: en-fed-en-noun-AV3sVPGj Categories (other): London English, Multicultural London English, Multicultural Toronto English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 37 13 17 Disambiguation of 'police officer': 12 37 49 2
  4. (Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government. Tags: Canada, in-plural
    Sense id: en-fed-en-noun-D5LVNMvZ Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 37 13 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /fɛd/ Audio: en-us-fed.ogg [US] Forms: feds [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛd Etymology: Clipping of federation. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|federation}} Clipping of federation Head templates: {{en-noun}} fed (plural feds)
  1. (weightlifting, colloquial) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Weightlifting Derived forms: e-fed
    Sense id: en-fed-en-noun-ifdh7pKY Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, weightlifting
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /fɛd/ Audio: en-us-fed.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɛd Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} fed
  1. simple past and past participle of feed Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: feed Derived forms: fed up, snow-fed
    Sense id: en-fed-en-verb-aHZa8aHC Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 19 21 10 15 6 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-us-fed.ogg/En-us-fed.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-us-fed.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "FED"
  ],
  "word": "fed"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang",
  "path": [
    "fed"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "fed",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: London, Toronto, especially MLE, MTE, slang",
  "path": [
    "fed"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "fed",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.