ped

pedestrian.

Origin of ped

by shortening

PED

performance-enhancing drug.

ped-¹

variant of pedo-¹ before a vowel: pedagogic.

Also paed-.

ped-²

variant of pedi- before a vowel.

ped-³

variant of pedo-² before a vowel: pedalfer.

ped.

-ped

a combining form with the meaning “having a foot” of the kind specified by the initial element: pinnatiped.

Also -pede.

Compare -pod.

Origin of -ped

< Latin -ped-, stem of -pēs -footed, adj. derivative of pēs foot

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Examples from the Web for ped

Contemporary Examples

Mayweather stands as the only person to ever accuse Manny Pacquiao of PED use.
If Manny Pacquiao Loses to Timothy Bradley, This May Be the End
Allen Barra
April 12, 2014
Perhaps my favorite writer, Will Leitch, seems merely bored by PED scandals.
Major League Baseball Is Right to Punish the Biogenesis Cheats
Michael Brendan Dougherty
June 6, 2013
HGH was the darling of the PED crowd for a long while because it could not be detected.
Where Were the Doctors to Testify at Roger Clemens’s Perjury Trial?
Kent Sepkowitz
June 20, 2012
Anabolic steroids, hailing from the world of male sex hormones—androgens like testosterone—are the second PED.
Where Were the Doctors to Testify at Roger Clemens’s Perjury Trial?
Kent Sepkowitz
June 20, 2012
Does Burns think that PED users will ever be forgiven by Hall of Fame voters?
Ken Burns Tackles Baseball Again
Allen Barra
September 27, 2010

Historical Examples

So he ped him, an' said he'd send th' carts in a day or two.
Lancashire Sketches
Edwin Waugh
In the V is a roller-wheel, and at the tip is a "ped," or foot.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism
Archibald Williams
Pediment′al; Ped′imented, furnished with a pediment: like a pediment.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Various
I he'ped keep de yard pretty an' clean, de grass cut, an' de flowers' tended to an' cut.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Work Projects Administration
I palavered her at the rate of a hunt, an' she ped me back in my own coin, with dacent intherest—but no whiskey!
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee
William Carleton

British Dictionary definitions for ped

ped-

combining form

a variant (esp US) of paedo-

-ped

-pede

n combining form

foot or feetquadruped; centipede

Word Origin

from Latin pēs, ped- foot

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ped in Medicine

ped-

pref.

Variant ofpedo-

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Origin of -ped

Examples from the Web for ped

Contemporary Examples

Mayweather stands as the only person to ever accuse Manny Pacquiao of PED use.

Perhaps my favorite writer, Will Leitch, seems merely bored by PED scandals.

HGH was the darling of the PED crowd for a long while because it could not be detected.

Anabolic steroids, hailing from the world of male sex hormones—androgens like testosterone—are the second PED.

Does Burns think that PED users will ever be forgiven by Hall of Fame voters?

Historical Examples

So he ped him, an' said he'd send th' carts in a day or two.

In the V is a roller-wheel, and at the tip is a "ped," or foot.

Pediment′al; Ped′imented, furnished with a pediment: like a pediment.

I he'ped keep de yard pretty an' clean, de grass cut, an' de flowers' tended to an' cut.

I palavered her at the rate of a hunt, an' she ped me back in my own coin, with dacent intherest—but no whiskey!

ped-

-ped

-pede

Word Origin

ped-

Origin of ped

ped-¹

ped-²

ped-³