Reader's Digest 2月号の記事 "The Bike Vigilantes" からの引用です。
Pavlik, who is 51, works part time at Trader Joe's when he's not gumshoeing for Twin Cities Stolen Bikes, which has a Facebook page with 11,000 members. The volunteer group reunites owners with their wheels, often by tracking stolen bikes for sale on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp.
"gumshoeing" の意味が分かりません。辞書を見ます。名詞形の "gumshoe" の説明を引用します。
・Collins Dictionary: A gumshoe is a detective.[US, informal, old-fashioned]: ...an FBI gumshoe.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: detective (= someone whose job is to discover facts about a crime): The wealthy, aristocratic sleuth of the previous decade was replaced by the rough-edged, working-class gumshoe.
・Vocabulary.com: 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.
The "detective" meaning of this word comes from the "galoshes" definition. In fact, during the late 19th century, gumshoes or gums were any type of rubber-soled shoes. Around the turn of the 20th century, to gumshoe meant "to sneak around," and by 1906, gumshoe became a common nickname for plainclothes detectives (or "private eyes"), famous for moving stealthily in their quiet rubber-soled shoes.
Pavlik, who is 51, works part time at Trader Joe's when he's not gumshoeing for Twin Cities Stolen Bikes, which has a Facebook page with 11,000 members. The volunteer group reunites owners with their wheels, often by tracking stolen bikes for sale on Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp.
"gumshoeing" の意味が分かりません。辞書を見ます。名詞形の "gumshoe" の説明を引用します。
・Collins Dictionary: A gumshoe is a detective.[US, informal, old-fashioned]: ...an FBI gumshoe.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: detective (= someone whose job is to discover facts about a crime): The wealthy, aristocratic sleuth of the previous decade was replaced by the rough-edged, working-class gumshoe.
・Vocabulary.com: 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.
The "detective" meaning of this word comes from the "galoshes" definition. In fact, during the late 19th century, gumshoes or gums were any type of rubber-soled shoes. Around the turn of the 20th century, to gumshoe meant "to sneak around," and by 1906, gumshoe became a common nickname for plainclothes detectives (or "private eyes"), famous for moving stealthily in their quiet rubber-soled shoes.
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