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Hed

adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Acronym of howardite, eucrite, diogenite (“pertaining to howarditic/eucritic/diogenitic material”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    The headline of a news story. slang
  2. 2
    Archaic spelling of head. alt-of, archaic
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    simple past and past participle of heed form-of, informal, obsolete, participle, past

    "They finally hed my warnings!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.

Etymology 2

Altered spelling of had.

Etymology 3

See heed.

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