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gumshoe definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is a detective [syn: dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw]
2: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber, gumshoe]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1913 detective II. intransitive verb (gumshoed; gumshoeing) Date: 1930 to engage in detective work

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US 1 a galosh. 2 sl. a detective.

Moby Thesaurus

Dogberry, John Law, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, beagle, bluecoat, bobby, bull, cop, copper, couch, crawl, creep, dick, eye, flatfoot, flattie, fuzz, gendarme, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, heat, inch, inch along, investigator, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, nightwalk, officer, pad, peeler, pig, plainclothesman, police officer, private eye, prowl, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, shadow, shamus, shirk, sidle, skip tracer, skulk, sleuth, sleuthhound, slink, slip, snake, sneak, spotter, stalk, steal, steal along, tec, the cops, the fuzz, the law, tippytoe, tiptoe, worm, worm along