het

adj. a short, informal way to say heterosexual.

adj. a clipping of heterosexual; used primarily within LGBTQ+ communities to distinguish between sexual orientations.

“He has a lot of het friends from his time at university.”

“The social mixer was intended for everyone, though the crowd turned out to be mostly het couples.”

Slang

n. stories written by fans that focus on a romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

n. a genre of fan fiction featuring romantic or sexual relationships between characters of the opposite sex.

“She mostly writes het, but she enjoys reading all kinds of fan fiction.”

“While slash fiction dominated the forum, there was a dedicated sub-community producing high-quality het stories for that specific fandom.”

Slang

adj. a regional way to describe something that has been made hot.

adj. a dialectal adjective meaning heated or made hot; often found in specific regional British or American varieties.

“The room was good and het by the time we came inside.”

“The stones remained het long after the sun had dipped below the horizon, radiating warmth into the cool evening air.”

Dialect