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Feeb en · NOUN

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  1. (countable, slang, uncountable) A member of the FBI.
    • Mark and the agents crowded into the MODIS room, the Feeb in charge looking very annoyed at both me and Mark. 2002, Prescribed Danger, page 203:
    • Was she a Feeb, too ? Why were FBI agents interested in a local boy who had shot his foster father? 2004, Gwen Hunter, Grave Concerns, page 41:
    • He's a Feeb, but he's not my buddy. 1996, Robert Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, page 299:

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Synonyms

Fibber · Feebie

Feeb en · PROPN

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  1. (slang) The FBI.
    • Maybe on some level she was doing the same job as one of the Feeb's Investigative Support Unit shrinks, but she resisted the comparison. 2007, Alan Russell, Shame, page 54:
    • The first thing Joe noticed was the seating arrangements — Katz at the head of the long antique cherry wood table, John Nagoshi to his right, Peter Nagoshi next to his father (and Joe could not help but study the younger Nagoshhi as he entered the room, his smooth expressionless face barely turning to acknowledge their entrance), and across the table FBI Boston Field Office Special Agent in Charge Leo King and Special Agent Ned Jacobs — the Feeb's resident profiler. 2009, Sydney Bauer, Alibi, page 103:
    • Bomb Squad got a tip from the Feeb and rolled in with Metro. 2006, Robert Crais, The Two Minute Rule, page 288:

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