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

But even before the latest story, Bass’s Palisades report card was one that a prudent person might have fed to the dog.

From Los Angeles Times

Micro1 recruits and manages thousands of human experts — coders, lawyers, doctors, professors and financial analysts — to gather expert information that is fed to AI models like ChatGPT.

From Los Angeles Times

That message, Levin said, has “a resonance with a decent part of his base,” and when fed ceaselessly into the system, can have violent outcomes.

From Los Angeles Times

There are some wonderful communicators in this Scotland team but, in the politest sense, they're fed up communicating and are just desperate to start delivering.

From BBC

Those insults are fed intravenously and instantaneously into the body politic due to our interconnectivity.

From Salon

Related Words

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