gumshoe
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
gumshoes
plural
gumshoes
Britannica Dictionary definition of GUMSHOE
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US, informal + old-fashioned
:
a person whose job is to find information about someone or something
:
a private detective
— used especially to imitate the language of old detective novels
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The movie's main character is a hard-boiled gumshoe.
