Definitions
a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
Word origin
From gum + shoe.
Used in a sentence
“"Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"”
“So how does Santa go up and down chimneys and keep his clothes clean? MAIRE NIC SUIBHNE and her junior gumshoes get their claws into assorted Messrs Claus and come up with an answer . . .”
“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, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Private detective”7 letters
02“Private eye, slangily”7 letters
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