Lexicon of Politics: Day 37

Back from NYC, less one credit-card but equipped with a better appreciation English after falling down a "malfunctioning" staircase in Chinatown and having to jesticulate the incident the non-English speaking owners of the building. Anywho, back to politics:

G-heat n. pressure or trouble from federal law enforcement agencies (also) federal law enforcement agents.

1937 Hoover's Persons in Hiding 114:
You're hot. It's G heat! We don't want to lay eyes on you!

1949 in Harper's (Feb. 1950) 74:
The G-heat may assume it has been stolen and enter the case on that basis.