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In some senses, zed is marked as slang, informal, colloquial, UK, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
pronounced
VERB + ZED
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ZED + NOUN
zee
noun
The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
Something Z-shaped.
zed-bar
Sleep.
I'm going to go get some zeds.
A zombie.
A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
verb
To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
name
A diminutive of the male given name Zedekiah.
“So you changed it.” “Yes.” He turns off the tap. “Why did you choose the name Zed? What does it mean?” “Nothing. It's the last letter of the alphabet.”
Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
Wiktionaryzed-bar
WiktionaryI'm going to go get some zeds.
WiktionaryZedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
WiktionaryI guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
Wiktionary"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
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In some senses, zed is marked as slang, informal, colloquial, UK, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.