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Fed, fed, n. U.S.
[Short for federalist.]
1. = federalist n. 2.
1788[see anti-fed]. 1801[see anti n.]. 1807W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) I. xii. 187, I had three or four good Feds sprawling around me on the floor. 1848Campaign Flag (Maysville, Ky.) 24 Mar. 1/1 The feds have got to polling the passengers on steam-boats again. 1947West. Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Mar.–June 22 There were few marriageable men left in the narrow confines to which the aristocratic ‘Feds’ had limited themselves.
2. An official of the federal government; spec. a member of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. slang.
1916A. Stringer Door of Dread iv. 53 Seein' Kestner and yuh'd told me the Feds had ev'rything fixt, I give him the glassy eye. 1935Lit. Digest 22 June 38 ‘G Men’ have also been called ‘feds’. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XXIV. 47 Anyway, the Feds got the letter where I sent him $400. |