Definition of smoking gun
: something that serves as conclusive evidence or proof (as of a crime or scientific theory)
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Examples of smoking gun in a Sentence
This document is the smoking gun that proves that he was lying.
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First Known Use of smoking gun
1974
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Definition of smoking gun for English Language Learners
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: a piece of evidence that clearly proves who did something or shows how something happened
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