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plural zeds
The name of the Latin-script letter Z. quotations examples
Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 298
(in combination) Something Z-shaped. examples
(colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep. examples
(slang) A zombie.
third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded
(intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.) quotations examples
Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed
I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
"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."
2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
(intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns. quotations
We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
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.
1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang