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Het
Definitions
- 1 Heterosexual. slang
- 2 Heated. dialectal
- 3 Clipping of heterozygous. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
- 1 made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’) wordnet
- 1 Initialism of Historical Enquiries Team. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 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."
- 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
Etymology
Clipping of heterosexual.
Clipping of heterosexual.
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”).
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”).
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