smoking gun
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smoking gun

noun

Definition of SMOKING GUN

: something that serves as conclusive evidence or proof (as of a crime or scientific theory)

Examples of SMOKING GUN

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

First Known Use of SMOKING GUN

1974

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