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gumshoe
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gumshoe has 2 senses
- gumshoe(n = noun.person) dick, hawkshaw - someone who is a detective; Array is a kind of detective, investigator, police detective, tec
- gumshoe(n = noun.artifact) arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber - a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow; Array is a kind of overshoe
CIDE DICTIONARY
gumshoe, n.
- A detective; a private eye. [PJC]
- A shoe made of rubber, as a rubber overshoe. [PJC]
- A sneaker{3}. [PJC]
THESAURUS
gumshoe
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
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