feds
Uncle Sam's enforcers
Feds is informal for federal agents or officials, especially law enforcement: FBI, DEA, ATF, and similar agencies.
The feds raided the warehouse at dawn.
The term often carries a slight edge of wariness or antagonism, distinguishing federal authority from local police.
Sometimes extended to mean the federal government generally: The feds are cracking down on tax evasion.
U.S. domestic intelligence agency
- DEAFederal narcotics agency
- ATFFirearms oversight agency
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- NSAFederal cryptologic intelligence agency
ICE · IRS · DOJ · bureau · headquarters · badge · jurisdiction · interagency
Sudden armed incursion
- arrestSeize by law
- takedownForced grounding maneuver
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- investigationFormal examination of facts
prosecution · indictment · apprehension · bust · crackdown · warrant · handcuffs · Miranda
Secretly engaged in espionage
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- operativeCovert field agent
- infiltrationCovert entry into organization
counterintelligence · covert · clandestine · sting · wiretap · mole · handler · asset
Informal term for police
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- suitsFormal business clothing
- authoritiesThose holding official control
- lawBinding principle or regulation
U.S. seat of government
- CapitolLegislative assembly building
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
regulation · policy · mandate · jurisdiction · interstate · national · constitutional · appropriations
FBI
U.S. domestic intelligence agency
NSA · ICE · IRS · DOJ · bureau · headquarters · badge · jurisdiction · interagency · G-men
raid
Sudden armed incursion
investigation · prosecution · indictment · apprehension · bust · crackdown · warrant · handcuffs · Miranda · manhunt
undercover
Secretly engaged in espionage
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- operativeCovert field agent
infiltration · counterintelligence · covert · clandestine · sting · wiretap · mole · handler · asset · cover
cops
Informal term for police
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- suitsFormal business clothing
- authoritiesThose holding official control
Washington
U.S. seat of government
- CapitolLegislative assembly building
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
oversight · regulation · policy · mandate · jurisdiction · interstate · national · constitutional · appropriations · budget
- Copscop, cops, coppers, police, sheriff
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
fedslocals
Area's permanent inhabitants
state police · county sheriff · municipal police · city police · sheriff's department
fedscivilians
Non-military population
citizens · the people · ordinary people · the public · taxpayers
- fed upOut of patience
- federal powersCentral government's legal authority
- the fedsFederal law enforcement, slang
- federal governmentCentralized national ruling body
- federal jurisdictionLegal domain of central government
- federal agentNational law enforcement officer
fed, federal, federalism, federation, confederate, confederacy, federally, federalist, federations