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gumshoe

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Gumshoe is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the NES and released in 1986 in North America and on June 15, 1988 , in Europe. Gumshoe is played using the NES Zapper . The game was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto .

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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.