superagent

S1U1P3E1R1A1G2E1N1T1

noun

A highly skilled or prominent agent, particularly in show business.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounsuperagent (plural superagents)

plural superagents

  1. A highly skilled or prominent agent, particularly in show business.

    Can he really continue playing Ari Gold, the jerk superagent, without getting delusions and landing in ego-disorder rehab?

    2007 April 6, Virginia Heffernan, “On Gilded Sharks and Loverboys”, in New York Times
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    They were talking about the Business in the 1970s - mostly about their friend and Esther's fellow International Creative Management (ICM) superagent, the late Sue Mengers.

    2017, Julie Klam, The Stars in Our Eyes, The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them, page 99

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Latinagō
  8. Latinagēns
  9. Englishagent
  10. Englishsuperagent

From super- + agent.

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APA

superagent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superagent

MLA

“superagent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superagent. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “superagent,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superagent.

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