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G-Man
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thumb|Poster for the 1935 film G Men thumb|right|American World War II home front poster "Don't be an Amateur 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).
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Vinony's link graph records 145 inbound references to G-Man, and connects out to United States, Ohio and Virginia.
Vinony files it under 1920s neologisms, 1930s slang and 1940s slang.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|Poster for the 1935 film G Men thumb|right|American World War II home front poster "Don't be an Amateur 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 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “G-Man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.