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the suspicious wife paid a gumshoe to follow her husband
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The film is perhaps the first Technicolor, partially animated, psychedelic gumshoe noir.
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Shapiro’s probe into the case leads him, in classic gumshoe fashion, to a variety of characters from both high and low society, untangling a story involving family ties and loyalties.
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Poonam ran up the stairs in search of the bumbling gumshoes.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Round out the dog days with a crooning governess, a singing gumshoe, a power-hungry Scottish general and his scheming spouse and more.
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Likewise, there were millions who, in the waning days of the campaign, clicked happily on a salacious dossier of anti-Trump material gathered by gumshoes in an effort to stop him.
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Katz, of Fort Lauderdale, is one of a rare breed: a licensed private investigator who traded the traditional gumshoe world for a life tracking wandering animals.
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Smith here shows the breadth of his acting abilities as the laconic gumshoe Deuce Cooper.
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Before long, artificial intelligence should be able to analyze the data pouring in from devices and nail criminals better than any human gumshoe.
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First Known Use of gumshoe
1913
gumshoe Synonyms
Synonyms
dick, detective, hawkshaw, investigator, operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus [slang], sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhoundRelated Words
shadow, tail, tracer, tracker; fed, Federal, G-man, narc (or nark) [slang], plainclothesmanFirst Known Use of gumshoe
1930
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