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Noun
/ˈgəmˌSHo͞o/,
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gumshoes, plural;
  1. A detective

  1. dick: someone who is a detective
  2. arctic: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
  3. Gumshoe is a 1971 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears.
  4. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a book-based game published by Sleuth Publications in 1981. A deluxe edition was released in a leatherette binder; the game was also published in a more traditional boxed version. In 1985, it won the Spiel des Jahres award.
  5. Gumshoe is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the NES and released on June 6, 1986 in the United States, and on June 15, 1988 in Europe. Gumshoe is played using the NES Zapper. The game was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto .
  6. A sneaker or rubber overshoe; A detective
  7. (Gumshoes) includes a number of appendices; authors and their sleuths, detectives in their geographical areas, the field of employment of each detective, and historical detectives in chronological order (slightly confusingly this is a list of the included detectives from the earliest – mid ...
  8. Detective; also gumshoeing = detective work
  9. US, derogatory, slang for detectives, who are ostensibly wearing soft-heeled shoes or Hush Puppy shoes so they can follow suspects without being noticed.
  10. alternative term for golosh – 1.
  11. American slang term for detectives.