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In some senses, gumshoe is marked as slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
gumshoe
/ˈɡʌm.ʃuː/
noun 2verb 1
Collocations
2GUMSHOE + NOUN
guy
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
1
A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
2
A detective.
"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
verb
1
To act as a detective.
The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.
But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.
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"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
Wiktionary02
The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasure
Wiktionary03
But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.
Wiktionary04
He's a gumshoe.
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