What does "het" mean?
A heterosexual person.
Het
/hɛt/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A heterosexual person.
- Grammar: het is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: definite article, definite determiner, dummy subject, expletive pronoun.
- Useful contrasts: cool, cool down, feminine pronoun.
- Usage evidence: Now, don't get all het up. I was going to tell you when you came home.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A heterosexual person. countable, slang
"See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day"
- 2 dialectal form of heat (“hotness”) West-Country, dialectal, especially, form-of, uncountable
- 3 Clipping of heterozygous. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair."
- 4 Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter). alt-of, alternative
- 5 Abbreviation of Hall effect thruster. abbreviation, alt-of
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- 6 Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship. slang, uncountable
"Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters."
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of heat dialectal, form-of, participle, past
- 2 dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”) West-Country, dialectal, especially, form-of
Adjective
- 1 Heterosexual. slang
- 2 Heated. dialectal
- 3 Clipping of heterozygous. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’) wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Historical Enquiries Team. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Synonyms
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Example
"Now, don't get all het up. I was going to tell you when you came home."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "het"?
Common synonyms include: definite article, definite determiner, dummy subject, expletive pronoun, heat, heated.
How do you use "het" in a sentence?
Now, don't get all het up. I was going to tell you when you came home.
How do you pronounce "het"?
Pronounced /hɛt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Clipping of heterosexual.
Etymology 2
From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to read”); see heat (“to make hot”).