Hed
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The headline of a news story. slang
- 2 Archaic spelling of head. alt-of, archaic
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English. alt-of, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling
"He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out.[…]”"
- 2 simple past and past participle of heed form-of, informal, obsolete, participle, past
"They finally hed my warnings!"
- 1 Acronym of howardite, eucrite, diogenite (“pertaining to howarditic/eucritic/diogenitic material”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable
Synonyms
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More examples"He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out.[…]”"
Etymology
Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.
Altered spelling of had.
See heed.
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