Definitions for gumshoe

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gumshoe gum·shoe

Spelling: [guhm-shoo]

IPA: /ˈgʌmˌʃu/

Gumshoe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in gumshoe (eghmosu).

Definitions for gumshoe

noun

1. Slang. a detective.
2. a shoe made of gum elastic or India rubber; rubber overshoe.
3. sneaker (def 1).

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to work as a detective. to go softly, as if wearing rubber shoes; move or act snoopily or stealthily.

Origin of gumshoe

An Americanism dating back to 1860-65; gum¹ + shoe

Examples for gumshoe

Why, honest, Reggie, even the gumshoe just eats out of his hand.

To heck with the gumshoe; bounds are off for the afternoon anyway.

And consider the appropriateness of the figures of speech, as gumshoe would say.

In some ways, The Hypnotist hews closer to the American gumshoe tradition.

Montalbán endowed his Catalan gumshoe with an equally impressive set of quirks that are aired and explored in each book.

But theres nothing I can do; Im in with gumshoe worse than ever.

Dye remember Reggie Carroll telling us that the gumshoe would get even?

Mr. Pepper don't like the idea, though, of doin' the gumshoe sneak.

One for the gumshoe, said Tony blithely, as they turned onto the campus.

The book on which I was doing all the gumshoe reporting, Godtalk, is now a time capsule.