The Collaborative International Dictionary
G-man \G-man\ n. [from Government man.] A special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Syn: FBI agent, FBI man, government man.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"FBI agent," 1930, shortening of government man; used earlier in an Irish context (1917), but the abbreviation is perhaps the same one.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years. 2 Any person working for the US Government, especially in undercover work.
Wikipedia
G-Man (plural G-Men) may refer to:
- G-Man (slang), short for "Government Man", slang for agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and similar organizations
- G Men, a 1935 Hollywood crime film
- G-Man (Sonny Rollins album), 1986
- G-Man (Rake album), 1996
- G-Man (comics), a comic written by Chris Giarrusso
- G-Man (Half-Life), a character in the Half-Life computer game series who is dressed like a government official
- G-men (magazine), a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men
- New York Giants, a National Football League team nicknamed G-Men
- The Pleazers, a 1960s Australian band originally named G-Men
- G-Men, a reference to a detectives of the Dublin Metropolitan Police force's G Division in early-20th-century Ireland
- Gideon "G-Man" Graves, character from the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series and movie
G-Man (short for Government Man) is an American slang term for Special agents of the United States Government. It is specifically used as a term for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.
The general schedule (GS) is the predominant pay scale within the United States civil service. The GS includes the majority of white collar personnel (professional, technical, administrative, and clerical) positions.
It is also a term used for members of "G Division" essentially a British anti-rebel police unit operating out of Dublin Castle prior to Irish Independence in 1922. Col. Ned Broy uses the term in his official testimony for the Irish Army's Bureau of Military History in their archive of the Rising and War of Independence.
The G-Man, voiced by Michael Shapiro, is a mysterious recurring character in the Half-Life series of first-person shooter video games. Described as a 'sinister interdimensional bureaucrat', he is known to display peculiar behavior and capabilities beyond those of normal humans. Throughout the story of the Half-Life series, the G-Man plays the role of an overseer and employer - he controls player-character Gordon Freeman's insertion to or extraction from the game world on several occasions, and his monologues with Freeman reveal his importance in the series' overall narrative. He claims to answer to some unseen higher authority which he refers to simply as his 'employers'. His mysterious nature has made him an icon of the Half-Life series, with his identity and motives remaining almost completely unexplained.
G-Man is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. It was recorded at an outdoor concert on August 16, 1986, held at Opus 40 in Saugerties, New York. The concert was filmed for a documentary about Rollins, directed by Robert Mugge, before being released on record in November 1987 by Milestone Records. G-Man received positive reviews from critics, some of whom called it one of Rollins' best albums.
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. The comic features a young superhero who gains the powers of super strength, super endurance and flight when he wears a magic cape. G-Man and his friends were introduced in Giarrusso's "Comic Bits", published in Image's Savage Dragon series. There are two G-Man collections: Learning to Fly and Cape Crisis. The first volume, Learning to Fly, was published in 2009 by Image Comics. The second novel, Cape Crisis, was published in 2010. The character G-MAN previously made small appearances in the Savage Dragon series.
G-Man is the third studio album by Rake., released in 1996 by Squealer.
Usage examples of "g-man".
But when Bates searched a wallet that X had left beside the G-man, he discovered a slip of pasteboard on which Jackson had recorded the tip.
He went into detail now about a number of things, most of them having to do with penitentiaries, electric chairs, the efficiency of the police, the G-men and Doc Savage.
He was killed because he had for too long made G-men, all of whom then wore fedoras, look non compos mentis, like nincompoops.
Im out on the fucking golf course and I see fucking G-men skulking in the rough and on the fairways, and for all I know, they got the fucking sand traps bugged.
America gets suspicious because it's un-American not to make all the money you can, and sicks a Senior G-man on you, and now, by God, you're going to have to investigate yourself!
Melvin Purvis, the super G-man of the thirties, shot himself with his own service pistol in 1959.