feds

• IPA^(key): /fɛdz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdz

feds

1. plural of fed
2. (US, Australia, slang, government) The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
   • 2016 February 10, Peter Martin, “State governments are about to hike up taxes”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1]:

     Which leaves the states in an awful hole. The Feds have ripped $80 billion out of their budgets over the next 10 years.

3. (US, MLE, slang) Law enforcement; cops.

   Look out! Here come the Feds!

   • 1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 36:

     "Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige."

feds

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fed

• FSed

feds n

1. indefinite genitive singular of fed
2. indefinite genitive plural of fed