Gumshoe

WOTD - 16 August 2010    

English

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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

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/

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Translations

sneaker or rubber overshoe

Armenian: կրկնակոշիկ (hy) (krknakošik) Finnish: kumitossu (fi) (sneaker), kalossi (fi) (rubber overshoe)

Russian: галоша (ru)

sland: a detective

Armenian: խուզարկու (hy) (xuzarku) Finnish: kyttä (fi)

Russian: детектив (ru)