英语词汇“shamus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	shamus
释义	shamus U.S. slang.\|ˈʃɑːməs, ˈʃeɪməs\| Also sharmus, shommus. [Orig. uncertain: perh. f. shamash or the Irish proper name Seamus.] A police officer; a private detective. 1925H. Leverage Dict. Underworld in Flynn's Mag. 28 Mar. 660 Sharmus, a detective; a cop.1928J. O'Connor Broadway Racketeers xvii. 186 Every Shommus on the beat knew we were going South with the stuff, but they couldn't prove it.1930[see kosher a. (n.) c].1950‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley ii. 19 Men in my profession don't call each other shamuses... We private operatives call ourselves private operatives.1960Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing iv. 49 You mean that I'm to be a sort of private eye or shamus, tailing them up?1977New Yorker 2 May 38/3, I think my wife is having me tailed by a private shamus.
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