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verb

simple past tense and past participle of feed.

Idiom

fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored: They were fed up with the same old routine.

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noun

(sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Origin:
1915–20; by shortening

noun

the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.

the Federal Reserve Board.

Federal.

federal.

federated.

federation.

verb (used with object)

to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.

to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.

to provide as food.

to furnish for consumption.

to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.

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to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.

to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.

to use (land) as pasture.

Theater Informal.

to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.

to provide cues to (an actor).

Chiefly British. to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.

10.

Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.

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verb (used without object)

11.

(especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.

12.

to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.

noun

13.

food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.

14.

an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.

15.

Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.

16.

the act of feeding.

17.

the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.

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18.

the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.

19.

a feeding mechanism.

20.

Electricity. feeder (def. 10).

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Theater Informal.

a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.

an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.

22.

a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.

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Idioms

24.

chain feed, to pass (work) successively into a machine in such a manner that each new piece is held in place by or connected to the one before.

25.

off one's feed, Slang.

reluctant to eat; without appetite.

dejected; sad.

not well; ill.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English feden, Old English fēdan; cognate with Gothic fodjan, Old Saxon fōdian. See food

Related forms

feed·a·ble, adjective

out·feed, verb (used with object), -fed, -feed·ing.

re·feed, verb, -fed, -feed·ing.

un·feed·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. nourish, sustain. 5. nurture, support, encourage, bolster. 13. Feed, fodder, forage, provender mean food for animals. Feed is the general word: pig feed; chicken feed. Fodder is especially applied to dry or green feed, as opposed to pasturage, fed to horses, cattle, etc.: fodder for winter feeding; Cornstalks are good fodder. Forage is food that an animal obtains (usually grass, leaves, etc.) by searching about for it: Lost cattle can usually live on forage. Provender denotes dry feed, such as hay, oats, or corn: a supply of provender in the haymow and corn cribs.

Antonyms
1, 2. starve.

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World English Dictionary

fed¹ (fɛd)

—vb
1.	the past tense and past participle of feed
2.	informal fed to death, fed to the teeth, fed up to the teeth, fed to the back teeth, fed up to the back teeth bored or annoyed

fed² (fɛd)

—n
	slang (US) an agent of the FBI

Fed (fɛd)

—n
	informal (US) the Fed the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

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Word Origin & History

feed

O.E. fedan "nourish, feed," from P.Gmc. *fothjanan (cf. O.S. fodjan, O.Fris. feda, Goth. fodjan "to feed"). The noun sense of "food for animals" is first attested 1588. Fed up "surfeited, disgusted, bored," is British slang first recorded 1900, extended to U.S. by World War I; probably from earlier phrases

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like fed up to the back teeth. Feeding frenzy is from 1989, metaphoric extension of a phrase that had been used of sharks since 1950s.

fed

1788, short for Federalist; as colloquial for official of the federal government, from 1916, especially, after 1930s, of FBI agents.

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Slang Dictionary

fed definition

n.
and the feds. a federal agent concerned with narcotics, tax collection, customs, etc. : Some fed was prowling around asking questions about you.
n.
the Federal Reserve Board. (Colloquial. Usually Fed. Always with the in this sense.) : The Fed is not likely to raise interest rates very soon again.

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