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shamusnoun slanga member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local levela hard-bitten L.A. shamus who, when he's not battling crooks, is locking horns with his superiors bobby(British), bull(slang), constable(chiefly British), cop, copper, flatfoot(slang), fuzz, gendarme, lawman, officer, police officer, policeman patrolman, policewomandetective, dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, inspector, investigator, plainclothesman, sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhoundmarshal(also marshall), sheriff, trooperpeace officercaptain, lieutenant, sergeantconstabulary, heat(slang), man, police, police forceoperative, private detective, private eye, private investigator civilian a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing personshe's a shamus who mostly finds evidence to use in divorce cases detective, dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, investigator, operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhound shadow, tail, tracer, trackerfed, Federal, G-man, narc(or nark, slang), plainclothesman in 1925 |