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gumshoes

gumshoes is the plural of gumshoe.

Meaning of gumshoe

Noun

gumshoe (plural gumshoes)

  1. A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
  2. (slang) A detective.
    • "Who's this gumshoe guy from the bush league tailin' us?"1920, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 20, in The Big-Town Round-Up

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Questions about gumshoes

What is gumshoes the plural of?
Gumshoes is the plural of gumshoe.

Words near gumshoes in the dictionary

  1. gumshield
  2. gumshields
  3. gumshoe
  4. gumshoed
  5. gumshoeing
  6. gumshoes
  7. gumsucker
  8. gumsuckers
  9. Gumti
  10. gumtree
  11. gumtrees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gumshoes (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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