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Idiot turned up with what may be Oxford detective
Answer for the clue "Idiot turned up with what may be Oxford detective ", 7 letters:
gumshoe
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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 ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But he makes the pulp gumshoe formula look like a comforting ritual only normal societies can perform. ▪ Dennis Miller is a down-at-the-heels gumshoe . ▪ With Petersen under lock and key, life for the gumshoes of the Office of ...
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.).
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.