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Definition of Gumshoes
1. gumshoe [v] - See also: gumshoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumshoes
Literary usage of Gumshoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text Retrieval Conference, 4th edited by D. K. Harman (1998)
"... -0020 gumshoes On Garbage Zero In On Beach-Defiling Wastes ... gumshoes On
Garbage Zero In On Beach-Defiling Wastes ..."
2. Creative Chemistry by Edwin Emery Slosson (1919)
"The gumshoes or galoshes that he was then enabled to make still go by the name
of "rubbers" in this country, although we do not use them for pencil erasers. ..."
3. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"Of the printable names given them by those upon whom they spy, "stool
pigeons," "stools," "gumshoes," and "finks" are perhaps the commonest. ..."
4. Old Salem by Eleanor Putnam, Arlo Bates (1893)
"My rubbers, too, instead of being of the shiny, blue- lined sort so dear to
childish souls, were literally what Miss Lucy called "gumshoes," being made of ..."
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