gumshoe
n.
rubber overshoe; (Slang) private investigator, detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a
police agency or a private person. Private detectives usually operate commercially and are licensed. They may be known as
private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in
fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves
crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.
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gumshoe
Noun
1. someone who is a detective
(synonym) dick, hawkshaw
(hypernym) detective, investigator, tec, police detective
(classification) colloquialism
2. a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
(synonym) arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber
(hypernym) overshoe
gumshoe
Synonyms and related words:
Dogberry, John Law, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, beagle, bluecoat, bobby, bull, cop, copper, couch, crawl, creep, dick, eye, flatfoot, flattie, fuzz, gendarme, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, heat, inch, inch along, investigator, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, nightwalk, officer, pad, peeler, pig, plainclothesman, police officer, private eye, prowl, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, shadow, shamus, shirk, sidle, skip tracer, skulk, sleuth, sleuthhound, slink, slip, snake, sneak, spotter, stalk, steal, steal along, tec, the cops, the fuzz, the law, tippytoe, tiptoe, worm, worm along
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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