A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
Someone who is a detective.
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Examples for "rubber "
Examples for "rubber "
1 Officers used water cannon, teargas and rubber bullets, a police spokesman said.
2 Makers of rubber and plastic products are especially likely to consider re-shoring.
3 Power is concentrated in the presidency, with parliament seen as a rubber - stamp .
4 There are a good number of lambs ready for the rubber ring.
5 However, controversy reigned yesterday when Finland refused to play the fifth rubber .
1 Overnight, Saturday's sleet had given way to clear skies and arctic cold.
2 Clothes were unknown, save as protection against cold in the arctic regions.
3 The tropical and arctic areas have wonderful displays and interactive learning stations.
4 I had noticed several pairs of arctic terns feeding and passing food.
5 That only came from cold water funneling down from the arctic currents.
1 And all at once the golosh grows, swells, fills up the whole room.
2 Aunt Emily removed the other golosh - ashademore quickly than the first one.
3 She wished she had not been so playful in flinging her golosh into the path.
4 Aunt Emily slowly removed one big golosh , then waited.
5 But the water, just the snake of water, was amusing, and she flung her golosh at it to dam it up.
1 I left my galoshes in the car once we got to church.
2 Immediately he went into a shop & bought a pair of galoshes .
3 Yes, I can hear his stick striking the pavement-andhis squeaking galoshes .
4 Another pair of galoshes , still warm from the mold, appeared before her.
5 As always in bad weather, he was wearing a raincoat and galoshes .
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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