ted

plural teds

1. A Teddy boy.

   The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.

   2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

present singular third person teds · participle present tedding · participle past tedded · past tedded

1. To spread hay for drying.

   Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

   2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN

1. A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.

   Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”

   2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025

   Synonyms: Eddie, Eddy, Tedd, Teddie, Teddy

plural Teds

1. informalA Teddy boy.

plural TEDs

1. abbreviationacronymuncountableusuallyAcronym of transmission electron diffraction.
2. abbreviationacronymuncountableusuallyAcronym of turtle excluder device.
3. abbreviationacronymuncountableusuallyAcronym of thyroid eye disease.
4. abbreviationacronymuncountableusuallyAcronym of transferred electron device.

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences.

   Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.

   2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012