Meaning

(countable, slang) A heterosexual person..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, slang) A heterosexual person.
2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
3. (slang) Heterosexual.
4. (now dialectal) simple past and past participle of heat
5. (now dialectal) Heated.
6. (especially West Country) dialectal form of heat (“hotness”)
7. (especially West Country) dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”)
8. Clipping of heterozygous.

Example Sentences

See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day

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.

The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.

Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).

For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

Word Forms

• hets
• more het
• most het
• hetting
• hetted
• het

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When Should You Use Het?

Use het when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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