What does gumshoe mean?
Gumshoe means A sneaker or rubber overshoe..
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/ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/ · noun
A sneaker or rubber overshoe..
"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
So how does Santa go up and down chimneys and keep his clothes clean? MAIRE NIC SUIBHNE and her junior gumshoes get their claws into assorted Messrs Claus and come up with an answer . . .
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.
But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.
Use gumshoe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gumshoe means A sneaker or rubber overshoe..
Common synonyms include detective, dick, private eye, sleuth.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
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