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Maybe Sam Spade sticks with another tool for gardener
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gumshoe
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gumshoe is a type of shoe also known by the term Galoshes Gumshoe may also refer to: Detective Gumshoe (film) , Stephen Frears's 1971 directorial debut Gumshoe, the Hardboiled Detective in the 30s , a 1981 book-based game published by Sleuth Publications ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plainclothes detective," 1906, from the rubber-soled shoes they wore (which were so called from 1863); from gum (n.1) + shoe (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is a detective [syn: dick , hawkshaw ] a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: arctic , galosh , golosh , rubber ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
gumshoe \gum"shoe\ n. A detective; a private eye. [slang] A shoe made of rubber, as a rubber overshoe. A sneaker[3].
Usage examples of gumshoe.
Now, though, as we near the millennium, we have a new breed of feminist gumshoes, spearheaded by Sharon McCone, V.
He knew all about grade creep in Washington, but this guy was no midlevel gumshoe.
And yet a collar-sniffing gumshoe dick with a combover had somehow gotten the drop on him, pulled off his mask, shown him for what he really was.
It was important not to get caught up in fantasies of magnifying glasses and cigar ash, or gumshoe with handgun.
In time, Watkins thought, the gumshoe might be in danger of becoming the gunbutt, with his ass parked for hours in front of either a mobile VDT or one on a desk at HQ.