het

Heterosexual.

Adjective slang

  1. Heterosexual.

Origin

Clipping of heterosexual.

Forms

more het most het

Derived

allocishet cishet comphet hetdar Hetlor hetsmut hetty non-het

Adjective dialectal

  1. Heated.

Origin

From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to read”); see heat (“to make hot”).

Forms

more het most het

Derived

het up

Adjective abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of heterozygous.

Noun countable, slang

  1. A heterosexual person.
    • See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day - 2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house:
  2. Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
    • 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...
    • 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). - 2010, Rebecca...

    Synonyms: hetfic

Forms

hets

Noun West Country, dialectal

  1. dialectal form of heat (“hotness”)

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of heterozygous.
    • For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

Forms

hets

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter).

Forms

hets

Related

het Bildt

Verb dialectal, form of

  1. simple past and past participle of heat

Verb West Country, dialectal

  1. dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”)

Forms

hets hetting hetted het