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語源 1

Clipping of federal.

名詞

fed (plural feds)

1. (slang, derogatory) A federal government officer or official.

   That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!

   • 2020 July 12, PNW Youth Liberation Front, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 12 July 2020:

     A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it.
     Holy fuck, I’m speechless.

   • 2020 July 12, Robert Evans, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:

     Hi. I should have made this clearer earlier. I will now. I have worked with feds. I have worked with foreign special forces who may well have been trained by the guys shooting at you from the courthouse.
     These are not cops. They are not even similar.

2. (MLE, MTE, slang) A police officer.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer

   • 2022 March 15, “Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching”, in Metro‎:

     Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station.

3. (in the plural) The federal government of the nation one resides in.

   Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.

派生語

語源 2

From federation.

名詞

fed (plural feds)

1. (weightlifting, slang) A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
2. Clipping of federation.

派生語

動詞

fed (third-person singular simple present feds, present participle fedding, simple past and past participle fedded)

1. Clipping of federate.

関連する語

語源 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

fed

1. simple past and past participle of feed

派生語

アナグラム

• DEF, Def., DfE, FDE, def