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Noun. In the show, Wednesday star Emma Myers (with a solid British accent!) plays a teenage gumshoe who gets to the bottom of a homicide case years earlier in a small English village in this adaptation of Holly Jackson’s popular YA novel.
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When you wear gumshoes, you're pulling on waterproof galoshes over your regular footwear. If you are a gumshoe, on the other hand, you're a private detective, investigating a case.
verb (used without object) , gum·shoed, gum·shoe·ing. Slang. to work as a detective. to go softly, as if wearing rubber shoes; move or act snoopily or stealthily. gumshoe. / ˈɡʌmˌʃuː / noun. a waterproof overshoe. a rubber-soled shoe. slang. a detective or one who moves about stealthily. slang. a stealthy action or movement.
Originally, gumshoe referred to a shoe with a rubber sole, specifically, galoshes or (more relevant to our purposes) sneakers. The senses of gumshoe leading to the 'private detective' sense all have to do with the idea that rubber-soled shoes give the wearer the ability to walk stealthily.
Gumshoe is a term for a private detective or a type of shoe. It can also refer to various media works, games, and awards related to detectives or investigations.
GUMSHOE definition: 1. informal for detective (= someone whose job is to discover facts about a crime) 2. informal for…. Learn more.