He's a gumshoe.
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Gumshoe
Synonyms for "gumshoe" (89 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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Translations
21 translations across 11 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- խուզարկու noun (slang: a detective)
- կրկնակոշիկ noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
Bengali
1 entries- টিকটিকি noun (slang: a detective)
Bulgarian
3 entries- галош noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
- гуменка noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
- детектив noun (slang: a detective)
Finnish
4 entries- dekkari noun (slang: a detective)
- kalossi noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
- kumitossu noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
- kyttä noun (slang: a detective)
German
2 entries- Schnüffler noun (slang: a detective)
- schnüffeln verb (to act as a detective)
Icelandic
1 entries- spæjari noun (slang: a detective)
Romanian
2 entries- detectiv noun (slang: a detective)
- galoș noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
Russian
2 entries- гало́ша noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
- детекти́в noun (slang: a detective)
Spanish
1 entries- sabueso noun (slang: a detective)
Swedish
2 entries- deckare noun (slang: a detective)
- galosch noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
Turkish
1 entries- Galoş noun (sneaker or rubber overshoe)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"
Source: wiktionary
The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.
Source: wiktionary
But these days, more and more women are gumshoeing through the pages of murder mysteries.
Source: wiktionary
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