Feeb

See also: feeb

English

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Noun

Feeb (countable and uncountable, plural Feebs)

1. (slang) A member of the FBI.

   Synonyms: Feebie, Fibber

   • 1996, Robert Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, page 299:

     He's a Feeb, but he's not my buddy.

   • 2002, Prescribed Danger, page 203:

     Mark and the agents crowded into the MODIS room, the Feeb in charge looking very annoyed at both me and Mark.

   • 2004, Gwen Hunter, Grave Concerns, page 41:

     Was she a Feeb, too ? Why were FBI agents interested in a local boy who had shot his foster father?

Proper noun

Feeb

1. (slang) The FBI.
   • 2006, Robert Crais, The Two Minute Rule, page 288:

     Bomb Squad got a tip from the Feeb and rolled in with Metro.

   • 2007, Alan Russell, Shame, page 54:

     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.

   • 2009, Sydney Bauer, Alibi, page 103:

     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.

Anagrams

• beef