A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
Someone who is a detective.
1 Or call in a gumshoe who happens to be a Warden, himself.
2 Donkey work that even a dipsomaniacal gumshoe like Harvey couldn't screw up.
3 And who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?
4 He's a kind of fringe-area gumshoe named Paul Denman.
5 You read enough mystery books, you find that cooking is practically a pre-requisite for a gumshoe .
6 His criminal had thus outwitted the gumshoe fraternity.
7 You've had that gumshoe 's laptop long enough.
8 You have to uphold the gumshoe image.
9 It's all ferreted out with gumshoe cunning and saintly patience, and packaged with lavishly detailed liner notes.
10 Another bad inning for the wizard gumshoe .
11 My cousin was five when I was born, and I followed her around like an inept gumshoe .
12 There's a gumshoe man on his trail.
13 He has also gained a reputation as an intrepid archival gumshoe , ferreting out sources that others have missed.
14 Mac and I walked stealthily down the corridor, me in true gumshoe fashion and him in flatfoot mode.
15 The gumshoe aesthetic celebrated in Ridley Scott's adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
16 Oh, and he also inspired a couple of cartoon characters, one of them Mumbly, the cartoon mutt gumshoe .
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