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   gumshoe

   /ˈɡʌmʃuː/

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   • 1. a detective: informal North American "he'd been intrigued enough to put a gumshoe on the case"

   Word Origin mid 19th century (in the sense ‘galoshes or soft-soled shoes’, suggesting stealth): the current sense dates from the early 20th century.

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   What does Gumshoe mean in slang?

   • At the turn of the century, "gumshoe" meant to sneak around quietly as if wearing gumshoes - either in order to rob or, conversely, to catch thieves. By about 1908, "gumshoe man" came to mean a police detective. Thus, the term "gumshoe" has referred to a detective since then.

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   What is a Gumshoe shoe?

   • Originally, gumshoe referred to a shoe with a rubber sole, specifically, galoshes or (more relevant to our purposes) sneakers. The senses of gumshoe leading to the 'private detective' sense all have to do with the idea that rubber-soled shoes give the wearer the ability to walk stealthily.

   Why are detectives/investigators referred to as "gumshoe"s?

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   What are gumshoes and how do they work?

   • Gumshoes are a type of footwear, shorter in length than gumboots and resembling more of a shoe than a boot, that are designed to keep the foot dry in mild wet conditions. They were not able to protect her feet from the deep squelchy mud in the passage. She should have worn gumboots instead.

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   Are gumshoes a detective?

   • When you wear gumshoes, you're pulling on waterproof galoshes over your regular footwear. If you are a gumshoe, on the other hand, you're a private detective, investigating a case. The "detective" meaning of this word comes from the "galoshes" definition. In fact, during the late 19th century, gumshoes or gums were any type of rubber-soled shoes.

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   Noun. In the show, Wednesday star Emma Myers (with a solid British accent!) plays a teenage gumshoe who gets to the bottom of a homicide case years earlier in a small English village in this adaptation of Holly Jackson’s popular YA novel.

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   GUMSHOE definition: 1. informal for detective (= someone whose job is to discover facts about a crime) 2. informal for…. Learn more.

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   When you wear gumshoes, you're pulling on waterproof galoshes over your regular footwear. If you are a gumshoe, on the other hand, you're a private detective, investigating a case.

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   noun. Slang. a detective. a shoe made of gum elastic or India rubber; rubber overshoe. sneaker ( def 1 ). verb (used without object) , gum·shoed, gum·shoe·ing. Slang. to work as a detective. to go softly, as if wearing rubber shoes; move or act snoopily or stealthily. gumshoe. / ˈɡʌmˌʃuː / noun. a waterproof overshoe. a rubber-soled shoe. slang.

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   noun. 1. a waterproof overshoe. 2. US and Canadian. a rubber-soled shoe. 3. US and Canadian slang. a detective or one who moves about stealthily. 4. US and Canadian slang. a stealthy action or movement. verb Word forms: -shoes, -shoeing, -shoed. 5. (intransitive) US and Canadian slang. to act stealthily. Collins English Dictionary.