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Gumshoe   Listen
noun
gumshoe  n.  
1.
A detective; a private eye. (slang)
2.
A shoe made of rubber, as a rubber overshoe.
3.
A sneaker (3).





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"Gumshoe" Quotes from Famous Books



... in order to arrive at real national, racial results was to keep on being intensely interested. When America shall have so far outclassed Europe as to be able to abolish, in university examinations, what New York picturesquely calls "the gumshoe squad" (of course now much more brilliantly organized in America than in Europe), then we shall begin to think that, under the stroke of the wand, at least one real national, racial result has ...
— Your United States - Impressions of a first visit • Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Gumshoe" :   galosh, golosh, police detective, investigator, hawkshaw, dick, colloquialism, arctic, tec, overshoe, rubber


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