J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar

slang The police. (J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI in the early 20th century). Primarily heard in US. Our community gets nothing but harassment from J. Edgar in this city.
See also: Edgar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

J. Edgar (Hoover)

(ˈdʒe ˈɛdgɚ (ˈhuvɚ))
n. the police; federal officers. (Underworld.) Max got out of town when he heard that the J. Edgars were on his tail.
See also: Edgar, hoover
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Edgar
  • J. Edgar
  • proud below the navel
  • hearken to (someone or something)
  • the laborer is worthy of his hire
  • worthy
  • foil
  • be a foil for (someone)
  • borachio
  • swill-belly
References in periodicals archive
Ultimately, J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies is an argument against censorship.
John Sbardellati: J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War
J. Edgar Hoover Leonardo DiCaprio Helen Gandy Naomi Watts Clyde Tolson Armie Hammer Charles Lindbergh Josh Lucas Annie Hoover Judi Dench With: Jeffrey Donovan, Miles Fisher, Damon Herriman, Ary Katz, Dermot Mulroney, Geoff Pierson, Michael Rady, Stephen Root, Ed Westwick.
Hoovers and shakers
"Thank God that a man like J. Edgar Hoover is the head of the FBI," read one ringing endorsement in The American Magazine in 1955.
Hoover's hidden wordsmiths
On the wall of our basement rec room, I remember seeing a photograph of my dad and J. Edgar Hoover shaking hands, and next to the picture was a signed letter from Hoover thanking Dad for his hard work and dedication during the war.
A wartime G-man
As for J. Edgar Hoover, his memoirs consist, as far as history is concerned, in the noxious marginalia he penned on his agents' reports dealing with the Bureau's harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.
Freeh ride: in his memoirs, the former FBI director tries to explain away the disasters on his watch
While I was attending the FBI Academy in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover died in his sleep.
When the boss trumps internal controls: what a difference a hotline, a routine audit and the right reporting chain could have made
Joe McCarthy's lackey) and even J. Edgar Hoover, all of whom must have thought their "tracks were covered" by being such rabid attack dogs to our overall liberation.
Hall of shame
Only later would I learn that "top cop" J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI until he was interred, had investigated the American Humanist Association, concluding that the organization wasn't communist and posed no threat to national security.
Humanism and communism
PUPPETMASTER: THE SECRET LIFE OF J. EDGAR HOOVER. Richard Hack.
Puppetmaster: the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist, by Fred Jerome.
Einstein as a subversive
Fred Jerome's THE EINSTEIN FILE: J. EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET WAR AGAINST THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SCIENTIST (St.
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against The World's Most Famous Scientist
'The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist' by Fred Jerome looks at the 2,000-page FBI file on the scientist and Hoover's attempt to have him deported.
New book looks at FBI's file on Einstein
The last play is a monologue that draws from J. Edgar Hoover's life in drag.
Robert Peters, Mad Ludwig of Bavaria and other short plays. (Briefs)
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and other federal authorities initially blocked any charges.
Justice delayed: four black girls died in a 1963 bombing in racially divided Birmingham. Now the last suspect is about to go on trial. (times past)
Patrick Gray Ill, J. Edgar Hoover's replacement at the FBI, who advised his staff to read his favorite book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, to get their "minds to soar."
Chris Burden. (First Break)