Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A US
government agent fightingorganized crime in theinterwar years . - noun A
fictional character based on this definition, eg, Dick Tracy. - noun Any person working for the US Government, especially in
undercover work.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the big G-man is the sky says “Laugh” you laugh and when he says “Rock” you rock.
Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric 2010
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The G-man government not Galway is the wonderful Don Cheadle, an actor I have liked in every role he's ever been in.
Michael Jones: The Guard Michael Jones 2011
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That was a Biblical warning to us all from The G-man in the Sky.
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When the big G-man is the sky says “Laugh” you laugh and when he says “Rock” you rock.
Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric 2010
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That was a Biblical warning to us all from The G-man in the Sky.
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Doc Hunt got his Play Skool Jr. G-man badge in the mail today?
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010
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SHOCKER OF THE WEEK: Nelson Van Alden, the twisted G-man who enforces his brand of rough justice on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, has us gasping in disbelief as he absconds with the dying witness from the forest massacre and plops him in a dentist's chair.
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Penning plays Maggie Pelletier, who just might marry handsome G-man Frank Keller Brit Herring, except as soon as he pops the question, a body floats up in Boston Harbor.
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Scott Wolf has left the aliens behind to turn into a G-man.
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That was a Biblical warning to us all from The G-man in the Sky.
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