ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hed is a noun meaning (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.

Meaning

(journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.

More Meanings

  1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
  2. (informal, obsolete) simple past and past participle of heed
  3. Archaic spelling of head.

Example Sentences

They finally hed my warnings!
He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out.[…]”
It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include head, headlinese, hammer, headline-ese, heading, hedgetop.

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