het

[ het ]

/ hɛt /

Informal.

a heterosexual person.

heterosexual.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1970–75; by shortening

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Elsewhere in the post, Silver explains, as he has many times, why no one should get too het up over one single poll.
Silver on Gallup's Galloping Numbers|Michael Tomasky|October 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Het Animisme bij den Volken van den indischen Archipel, pp. 69-75.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life|Emile Durkheim
Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it?
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21|Alexander Leighton
"Town's goin' to be het up for certain," said Mr. Bogle, waggling his ancient head.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland

I even discoursed a little about the beauty of the afternoon-sunlight and “het schilderachtige van het zomerlandschap”.
The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland|J. Irwin Brown
You're all het up needless, an' barkin' up the wrong tree, as folks used to say back where I come from.
The Gold Girl|James B. Hendryx

/ (hɛt) /

slang short for heterosexual

/ (hɛt) /

archaic, or dialect a past tense and past participle of heat

a Scot word for hot

adj.

"heated," archaic, late 14c., from variant past participle of heat (cf. lead/led, etc.).