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gumshoe
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a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons the suspicious wife paid a gumshoe to follow her husband Synonyms of gumshoe dick, detective, hawkshaw, investigator, operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus [slang], sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhoundWords Related to gumshoe shadow, tail, tracer, tracker; fed, Federal, G-man, narc (or nark) [slang], plainclothesman
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