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What (who) is gumshoe - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Gumshoe (disambiguation); Gum shoe
gumshoe
¦ noun N. Amer. informal a detective.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from gumshoes in the sense 'sneakers', suggesting stealth.
Gumshoe Awards
AWARD
The Gumshoe Awards; Gumshoe Award
The Gumshoe Awards are an American award for popular crime fiction literary works. The Gumshoe Awards are awarded annually by the American Internet magazine Mystery Ink (not to be confused with Mystery Inc.
Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe
RADIO COMEDY ADVENTURE SERIES BY THE ZBS FOUNDATION
Galactic Gumshoe
Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe is a science fiction radio drama series by the ZBS Foundation, written by Thomas Lopez. The first series, Ruby: Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe, was created in 1982.
Wikipedia
Gumshoe
Gumshoe is a type of shoe, also known as galoshes
Gumshoe may also refer to:
- Gumshoe, a slang term for a private detective, from those that wore street shoes with a thick, soft and quiet rubber sole
- Gumshoe (film), Stephen Frears's 1971 directorial debut
- Gumshoe (video game), a 1986 Nintendo shooter
- Gumshoe, the Hardboiled Detective in the 30s, a 1981 book-based game published by Sleuth Publications
- Gumshoe Awards, an American award for popular crime fiction literary works
- Gumshoe System, a tabletop role-playing game system designed for investigative scenarios
- Dick Gumshoe, a character in the 2001 video game, Ace Attorney
Examples of use of gumshoe
1. "We‘re working on these one case at a time, doing old–fashioned gumshoe detective work," Allen said.
2. Especially in violent crimes, old–fashioned gumshoe investigations, convincing witnesses, and believable testimony still rule the jury room, they add.
3. After her breakout role in Gumshoe with Albert Finney, she was back in a department store, as the flirty Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served?
4. When Felt self–exposed in Vanity Fair this week, the gumshoe journalists initially refused to confirm or deny, but the Post then confirmed he was the one.
5. Using sophisticated DNA techniques and gumshoe detective work, FBI agents and U.S. postal inspectors picked apart discrepancies in Ivins‘s accounts about the lethal bacteria he had cultured.