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gumshoed

gumshoed is the simple past and past participle of gumshoe.

Meaning of gumshoe

Verb

gumshoe (third-person singular simple present gumshoes, present participle gumshoeing, simple past and past participle gumshoed)

  1. (slang) To act as a detective.
    • 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.1933, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings, page 25

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Questions about gumshoed

What is gumshoed the simple past and past participle of?
Gumshoed is the simple past and past participle of gumshoe.

Words near gumshoed in the dictionary

  1. gums up
  2. gums up the works
  3. gumshield
  4. gumshields
  5. gumshoe
  6. gumshoed
  7. gumshoeing
  8. gumshoes
  9. gumsucker
  10. gumsuckers
  11. Gumti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gumshoed (page history and authors); gumshoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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