fed

¹ American  

[fed] / fɛd /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.

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idioms

1. fed up,  impatient; disgusted; bored.

   They were fed up with the same old routine.

fed ² American  

[fed] / fɛd /

noun

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

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Fed ³ American  

[fed] / fɛd /

noun

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

2. the Federal Reserve Board.

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fed. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. federal.

2. federated.

3. federation.

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Fed. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Federal.

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Fed. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Federal

2. Federation

3. Federated

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fed ² British  

/ fɛd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of feed

2. informal  bored or annoyed

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Fed ³ British  

/ fɛd /

noun

1. informal  the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

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fed ⁴ British  

/ fɛd /

noun

1. slang  an agent of the FBI

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Etymology

Origin of fed

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Example Sentences

Yeah, so I don’t get fed information about myself.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a University of California, Riverside experiment, most mice fed a high-fat diet rich in soybean oil put on substantial weight.

From Science Daily

In “Blue Collar,” three Detroit auto workers who are fed up with their union and barely making ends meet, rob the union’s safe only to find there’s little money in it.

From The Wall Street Journal

“How do we live in this world now, particularly because everything’s available?” the filmmaker says, referring to the many forms of temptation fed to young people via smartphone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Differences in how they walked, climbed and fed may have allowed them to share the landscape by using it in distinct ways.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• agent
• informer
• police officer
• private eye
• private investigator
• prosecutor
• reporter
• sleuth
• spy