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Origin of ped

By shortening

Other definitions for ped (2 of 7)

PED

performance-enhancing drug.

Other definitions for ped (3 of 7)

ped-¹

variant of pedo-¹ before a vowel: pedagogic.

Also especially British, paed- .

Other definitions for ped (4 of 7)

ped-²

variant of pedi- before a vowel.

Other definitions for ped (5 of 7)

ped-³

variant of pedo-² before a vowel: pedalfer.

Other definitions for ped (6 of 7)

-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 pēsfoot

Other definitions for ped (7 of 7)

ped.

abbreviation

pedal.

pedestal.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use ped in a sentence

At the same time, he refuses to turn his back on his PED-using teammates, the most famous being Alex Rodriguez.
Speed Read: Highlights From Mariano Rivera’s Memoir, ‘The Closer’|Ben Teitelbaum|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
But as the aging star sits out another year, will he and other PED-using greats be written out of Major League Baseball history?
Will Alex Rodriguez Be Written Out of MLB History?|Ben Jacobs|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST

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|DAILY BEAST
And old Squire said the tender, compassionate little face "ho'ped 'im as much as Miss July did."
That Old-Time Child, Roberta|Sophie Fox Sea
How fain she would have drawn on Sophocles To come aboard, and how she simper'd it—Ped.
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10)|Francis Beaumont
Pederasty, ped′e-rast-i, n. unnatural commerce of males with males, esp.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
If no oder medticine goes mit this ped, put me in some oder ped dot has a tifferent pottle, I cares not what it is.'
Doctor Jones' Picnic|S. E. Chapman
You pelongs to dot ped, und whoefer goes into dot ped dakes dot medticine.
Doctor Jones' Picnic|S. E. Chapman

British Dictionary definitions for ped (1 of 2)

ped-

combining form

a variant (esp US) of paedo-

British Dictionary definitions for ped (2 of 2)

-ped

-pede

n combining form

foot or feetquadruped; centipede

Word Origin for -ped

from Latin pēs, ped- foot

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for ped

ped-

pref.

Variant ofpedo-