1. Uncomplimentary term for a policeman
   "The criminals scattered when they heard the feds were coming";
   - bull [US, informal], cop [informal], copper [Brit, informal], pig [informal], bizzy [UK, dialect, informal], peeler [Brit, archaic], rozzer [Brit, informal]

1. The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies
   "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply";
   - Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve, FRS
    
2. [US, informal] Any federal law-enforcement officer
   "The Fed official conducted an investigation into tax fraud";
   - Federal, federal official

1. Give food to
   "Feed the starving children in India";
   - give
    
2. Provide as food
   "Feed the guests the nuts"
    
3. Take in food; used of animals only
   "The cattle feed in the pasture"
    
4. Serve as food for; be the food for
   "This dish feeds six"
    
5. Increase or justify; supply with a source of material
   "Her success feeds her vanity"
    
6. Introduce continuously
   "feed carrots into a food processor";
   - feed in
    
7. Support or promote
   "His admiration fed her vanity"
    
8. Move along, of liquids
   "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi";
   - run, flow, course
    
9. Profit from in an exploitatory manner
   "He feeds on her insecurity";
   - prey
    
10. Gratify
    "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view";
    - feast
     
11. (farming) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
    "They fed the soil with organic compost";
    - fertilize, fertilise [Brit], enrich

Derived forms: Feds, feds

See also: flow from

Type of: advance, agent, bobby [Brit, informal], boost, cater, central bank, consume, enclose, encourage, enrich, exploit, federal agent, furnish, further, have, inclose, ingest, insert, introduce, move, offer, officer, plod [Brit, informal], police officer, promote, provide, put in, put up, regale, render, stick in, supply, take, take in, treat, work

Antonym: famish

Encyclopedia: Fed