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Meanings of gumshoe in English

Portuguese
galocha
Catalan
xancle de goma
Spanish
chanclo de goma
Wikidata

A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.

        galocha

        Someone who is a detective.

              Boardgame.

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                    Usage of gumshoe in English
                    1
                    Or call in a gumshoe who happens to be a Warden, himself.
                    White night
                    2
                    Donkey work that even a dipsomaniacal gumshoe like Harvey couldn't screw up.
                    Death angel
                    3
                    And who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?
                    The Big-Town Round-Up
                    4
                    He's a kind of fringe-area gumshoe named Paul Denman.
                    The long saturday night
                    5
                    You read enough mystery books, you find that cooking is practically a pre-requisite for a gumshoe.
                    For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
                    6
                    His criminal had thus outwitted the gumshoe fraternity.
                    The Enormous Room
                    7
                    You've had that gumshoe's laptop long enough.
                    Break No Bones
                    8
                    You have to uphold the gumshoe image.
                    White night
                    9
                    It's all ferreted out with gumshoe cunning and saintly patience, and packaged with lavishly detailed liner notes.
                    Wired
                    10
                    Another bad inning for the wizard gumshoe.
                    Changes
                    11
                    My cousin was five when I was born, and I followed her around like an inept gumshoe.
                    Shadow of an angel
                    12
                    There's a gumshoe man on his trail.
                    The Long Chance
                    13
                    He has also gained a reputation as an intrepid archival gumshoe, ferreting out sources that others have missed.
                    The Irish Times
                    14
                    Mac and I walked stealthily down the corridor, me in true gumshoe fashion and him in flatfoot mode.
                    Red Planet Blues
                    15
                    The gumshoe aesthetic celebrated in Ridley Scott's adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
                    The Irish Times
                    16
                    Oh, and he also inspired a couple of cartoon characters, one of them Mumbly, the cartoon mutt gumshoe.
                    Reuters
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                    Translations for gumshoe
                    Portuguese
                    galocha
                    Gumshoe through the time