smoking gun

smoking gun
noun
indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)
Hypernyms: ↑evidence

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noun, pl ⋯ guns [singular]
: a piece of evidence that clearly proves who did something or shows how something happened

This document is the smoking gun that proves that he was lying.

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ˌsmoking ˈgun 7 [smoking gun] noun singular (informal)
something that seems to prove that sb has done sth wrong or illegal

This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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