G-Man (slang) G-Man (slang) G-Man (short for "Government Man") is an American slang term for special agents of the United States Government. It is specifically used as a term for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. "G-Man" is also a term used for members of G Division, essentially a British anti-rebel 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). According to the "Merriam-Webster
G-force another name that has been used for g-force. The term g-force is technically incorrect as it is a measure of "acceleration", not force. While acceleration is a vector quantity, g-force accelerations ("g-forces" for short) are often expressed as a scalar, with positive g-forces pointing downward (indicating upward acceleration), and negative g-forces pointing upward. Thus, a g-force is a vector of acceleration. It is an acceleration that must be produced by a mechanical force, and cannot be produced by simple gravitation. Objects acted upon "only" by gravitation experience (or "feel") no g-force, and are weightless. G-forces, when multiplied by a mass