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gumshoe
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WordNet
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n. someone who is a detective [syn: dick , hawkshaw ] a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: arctic , galosh , golosh , rubber ]
Wikipedia
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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 ...
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n. 1 A sneaker or rubber overshoe. 2 (context slang English) A detective.
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.