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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gumshoe/ˈɡʌmʃuː/

▶noun N. Amer. informal a detective.

– origin early 20th cent.: from gumshoes in the sense ‘sneakers’, suggesting stealth.

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