Meanings
plural scheds · alternative sched.
- abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of schedule.
PrincessCesca: my sched is pretty busy
2009, Tera Lynn Childs, Goddess Boot Camp, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 2515 more examples
'I took your telegram over there to send to the doctor, but it was too late for the sched. and the old man wasn't there. I felt the wireless and it was cold. I don't think he listened in.'
1958, Randolph Stow, To the Islands, New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing Company, published 1982, →ISBN, page 51In cases of extreme urgency, St. Anthony might be able to send one of the Mission boats, and, of course, there was the radio-telephone by which we kept contact, and there was always a daily "sched" at twelve noon.
1963, Lesley Diack, Labrador Nurse, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91I dial from Highgate Hill an imagine him sittin in his grubby office in an industrial depot wedge between Beckton an Creekmouth. Left of him he got his haulage scheds clip up on the wall.
2001, Nick Barlay, Hooky Gear, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 13"Pam, what time's your flight?" / "10:30 a.m.," I answered, looking up from the beer I was chugging down. "I don't know why my sched says I need to leave the hotel by 6:45."
2010, Pam Pastor, Paper Cuts, Mandaluyong, Philippines: Anvil Publishing, →ISBNWell, according to his sched, his next stop was his weekly painting class.
2015 February 15, “The Wednesday Incident”, in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 2, episode 16, spoken by Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti)
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