English

Gumshoe (sneaker or rubber overshoe).

Noun

gumshoe ‎(plural gumshoes)

1. A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
2. (slang) A detective.
   • 1920, William MacLeod Raine, The Big-Town Round-Up, ch. 20,

     "Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"

Synonyms

• (detective): detective, dick, private eye, sleuth

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Verb

gumshoe ‎(third-person singular simple present gumshoes, present participle gumshoeing, simple past and past participle gumshoed)

1. To act as a detective.
   • 1933, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings, page 25:

     The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.

   • 1988 September 23, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

     " But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.

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