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fed

nounnounverbverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɛd//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈfɛd] ~ [ˈfe̞d]/
  • United Kingdom/[ˈfɛd]/
  • Australia//ˈfed//

A federal government officer or official.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA federal government officer or official.

    That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!

    A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it. Holy fuck, I’m speechless.

    Hi. I should have made this clearer earlier. I will now. I have worked with feds. I have worked with foreign special forces who may well have been trained by the guys shooting at you from the courthouse. These are not cops. They are not even similar.

  2. 2

    slangA police officer.

    Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.

  3. 3

    The federal government of the nation one resides in.

    Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.

Etymology

Clipping of federal.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.

  2. 2

    Variant of federationClipping of federation.

Etymology

From federation.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of federateClipping of federate.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of feedsimple past and past participle of feed

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Forms

plural
feds
past tense
fedded
past participle
fedded
present participle
fedding
third person singular
feds
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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