t-man

1. 1.

   a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury

   Broadergovernment agent

Questions about t-man

What does t-man mean?

t-man means "a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury".

How many syllables are in t-man?

t-man has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is t-man a common word?

t-man is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.