G adj.1
(US) Federal.
 | implied in G-man | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dames Don’t Care (1960) 29: I send a code wire to the ‘G’ office in new York. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Man with the Golden Arm 276: This is a G offence. | |
| et al. DAUL 82/2: G-joint [...] A federal penal institution. | |
| Cannibals 62: The G attorney was too smart to get trapped. |
In compounds
(US) a female Government employee.
| USA Confidential 38: Females in farm houses, factories, furnished rooms and in furs are as promiscuous and predatory as the G-gals in the D.C. | |
| ‘Gyrene’ in AS XXXVII:3 178: G-girl ‘government girl,’ a term commonly applied during the 1930s to a woman employee of the Federal government. |
(US) an agent of the FBI .
| ‘Dream Street Rose’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 45: A bunch of G-guys step into the joint and bust it wide open. | |
| Palm Beach Post (FL) 4 June 1/5: [headline] Davis, Member of Karpis Gang, to Get Life Term [...] ‘No Use Trying to Beat These G-Guys’ He Announces. | |
| Palm Beach Post (FL) 29 July 20/4: The G-Guys had just caught six super-trained Hitler saboteurs. |
(US) trouble from, or agents of, federal law enforcement agencies.
| Persons in Hiding 114: Stay away from us. You’re hot. It’s G heat! We don’t want to lay eyes on you! | |
| Decade 317: Nails Flowers is on the lam. They hung a rap on him at last. He chalked out a momser, and the coppers and harness bulls and G-heat are on him. | |
| ‘See Him Die’ in Jungle Kids (1967) 102: Also he was getting G-heat because the word was he transported some broads into Connecticut for the purpose of prostitution. | |
| Remember William Kite 277: No G-heat on you? |
1. (US, also G) an FBI agent, lit. ‘Government-man’.
| It’s a Racket! 225: G MAN—United States government employee, especially one in the secret service or similar police work. | |
| Al Capone 33: He offered a G man [government agent] ten gran’ to forget it. | |
| Idiot’s Delight 150: I was in the Club Grotto the night the Purple Gang shot it out with the G’s. | |
| in ‘On Broadway’ 10 Aug. [synd. col.] [Hoover] has pet writers [...] who scratch his back in return for material that glorifies Edgar Hoover and the G’s. | |
| ‘No Place Like Homicide’ in Popular Detective Apr. 🌐 The Gs were after a firm down on Pearl Street for evading the bee that Uncle Sam puts on citizens. | |
| High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 409: The big brave G-men! It took forty of ’em to knock Johnny [i.e. Dillinger] off. | |
| In For Life 52: The G-men [...] learned the only new fact the police ever got. | |
| Mr Madam (1967) 35: When they’d make us write compositions about our fathers I’d always write that he was a G-man. | |
| Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 101: Winchell’s guests were J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, the G-men. | |
| ‘Grand Larceny’ 🎵 Calling the police, calling the G-men, calling all Americans to war on the underworld. | |
| Native Tongue 250: Sharpshooter Widow Gunned Me Down, Nude G-Man Claims. | |
| Chicken (2003) 162: I had a minimal panic seizure. G-men in closets. SWAT team swooping down and busting my ass. |
2. (S.Afr.) the vice and liquor squad.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Sophiatown in At the Junction (1995) 182: Oh my God! Dis die G-men! Vice en liquor squad! |
3. (Aus.) a member of the federal (rather than state) police force.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] They were federal cops. Australia’s version of the FBI. [...] Would be G-men, out for the glory and the elusive, multi-million dollar drug bust. |
(US gay) a warning that a club is due to be raided.
| Homosexuality & Citizenship in Florida 25: Glossary of Homosexual Terms [...] g-warning-g (general) red: tip-off on an oncoming raid which will happen soon. Warning for all gay people to leave the bars and head home [...] g-warning-local: Tip-off that the club in which it is given is about to be raided. Also, used to inform another person that you’re being watched and to be cautious. |