Definition of "feds"

feds

/fɛdz/

noun
1. plural of fed
2. (US, Australia, slang, government) The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
  Quotations
  Which leaves the states in an awful hole. The Feds have ripped $80 billion out of their budgets over the next 10 years.
  2016 February 10, Peter Martin, “State governments are about to hike up taxes”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎