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gumshoe
noun
a private investigator or detective US, 1908- We were in the gravy once more, and we looked that gumshoe square in the eye again. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 131, 1946
- I thought you’d be out of that uniform by now, doing gumshoe work. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 189, 1948
- That’s why I’m upset to find out that you think that I’ve been a detective with this club, a gumshoe. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 258, 1970
- This kid, looks like a girl, is a private eye. A shamus. A gumshoe. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 202, 1987
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