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What (who) is G-man - definition
AMERICAN SLANG TERM FOR FEDERAL AGENTS
G-man (slang); G-Men(Slang); G-Man (slang)
![American World War II home front poster "Don't be an Amateur G-man!"](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/"Don't be an Amateur G-Man" - NARA - 514131.jpg?width=200 "American World War II home front poster \"Don't be an Amateur G-man!\"")
G-man
GRAPHIC NOVEL BY CHRIS GIARRUSSO
G-Man (Image Comics); G-Man (comic); G-MAN
¦ noun informal
1. US an FBI agent.
2. Irish a political detective.
Origin
early 20th cent.: prob. an abbrev. of Government man.
G-man
GRAPHIC NOVEL BY CHRIS GIARRUSSO
G-Man (Image Comics); G-Man (comic); G-MAN
G-man (short for "government man", plural G-men) is an American slang term for agents of the United States Government. It is especially used as a term for an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
G-Man (comics)
GRAPHIC NOVEL BY CHRIS GIARRUSSO
G-Man (Image Comics); G-Man (comic); G-MAN
G-Man is an all-ages comic book or graphic novel written and illustrated by Chris Giarrusso and published by Image Comics. The comic has been published in the form of back-ups in other comic books as well as original one-shots and trade paperback collections.
Wikipedia
G-man
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G-man (short for "government man", plural G-men) is an American slang term for agents of the United States Government. It is especially used as a term for an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
G-man is also a term used for members of G Division, a Dublin Metropolitan Police unit operating out of Dublin Castle prior to Irish independence in 1922. Colonel Ned Broy uses the term in his official testimony for the Irish Army's Bureau of Military History in their archive of the Easter Rising (1916) and the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921).
Examples of use of G-man
1. Not just an ordinary Junior G–Man, mind you, but a Melvin Purvis Junior G–Man.
2. I was now a Melvin Purvis Junior G–Man, Lieutenant.
3. It was enameled brass, light green with gold lettering that anointed me a Melvin Purvis Junior G–Man, Novice.
4. Later, when we got back, I asked him, ‘Did you know where I was sitting?‘ " It turned out that he hadn‘t. × × × The Black G–Man "I have never felt uncomfortable being a black man in the FBI," Mason said.
5. The former G–man extraordinaire who rose to be the FBI‘s No. 2 man and fed information on the Nixon administration that helped bring down a president –– he and his family are under someone else‘s control, it seems.