gumshoe 的 2 个定义
- Slang. a detective.
- a shoe made of gum elastic or India rubber; rubber overshoe.
- sneaker.
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 近义词
detective
更多gumshoe例句
- Montalbán endowed his Catalan gumshoe with an equally impressive set of quirks that are aired and explored in each book.
- In some ways, The Hypnotist hews closer to the American gumshoe tradition.
- The book on which I was doing all the gumshoe reporting, Godtalk, is now a time capsule.
- Not some cheesy gumshoe operation with frosted-glass windows and the lingering stench of stale cigar smoke.
- Under McCullogh's regime this open-shop gumshoe artist had free access to the jail with instructions to go as far as he liked.
- I'm sure the gumshoe when it comes to pipin' a man off so's I got his photograph in my eye.
- A gumshoe outlasts a hobnailed sole and a rubber tube full of air is better than a steel tire.
- And consider the appropriateness of the figures of speech, as Gumshoe would say.
- One for the Gumshoe, said Tony blithely, as they turned onto the campus.