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Definition of 'shamus'English
Noun
(es)
A private detective.
* {{quote-book
|year=1960
|author=
|title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
|section=chapter IV
|passage=“That's what you're here for. Didn't your aunt tell you? She wants you to follow Wilbert Cream and Phyllis about everywhere and see that he doesn't get a chance of proposing.”
“You mean that I'm to be a sort of private eye or shamus , tailing them up? I don't like it,” I said dubiously.}}
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