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As a noun zed

is .

As a verb zed

is (informal) to sleep or nap (compare zzz, catch some z's).

As an abbreviation med is

(degree ) master of education.

zed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
  • (colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zeds").

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    Synonyms

    * zee (especially in the US) * izzard

    See also

    * zeta

    Verb

  • (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  • * 1991 , Jim Cartwright, Bed
    • Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
  • * 1992 , David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
    • I guess I must have zedded , for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
  • * 2007 , Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
    • "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."
  • (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
  • * 1931 , Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
    • We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
  • * 1994 , Tibor Fischer, The thought gang
    • 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.

    med

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from medical.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) Medical.
    • I'm in med school.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    • He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
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    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (UK, dialect) may; might
  • * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

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