feeb meaning (slang): definition, etymology and quotations

Feeb

nounalso spelled Feeb

Slang A member of the FBI.

He's a Feeb, but he's not my buddy.1996, Robert Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, page 299:
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:

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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:

feeb

noun

/fiːb/

Etymology Clipping of feeble-minded. Etymology tree Anglo-Norman feblebor. Middle English feble English feeble English mind Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English minded English feeble-minded English feeb

US, Slang Someone who is feeble-minded; an idiot.

‘Everybody that knows anything about me knows that I wouldn't hurt a feeb.’1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 128:
“Eeeyynnhh, too many feebs to deal with over the years, I guess—oh I'm sorry, hope I'm not offending—”2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 285: