Definitions for smoking gun
smok·ing gun

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1. smoking gunnoun

   indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)

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1. smoking gunnoun

   Incontrovertible evidence; convincing evidence.

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1. smoking gunnoun

   Evidence, particularly of a crime, that is difficult or impossible to dispute.

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1. Smoking Gun

   Smoking Gun is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Artist in a Video for this song.

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1. Smoking gun

   The term "smoking gun" was originally, and is still primarily, a reference to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act. In addition to this, its meaning has evolved in uses completely unrelated to criminal activity: for example, scientific evidence that is highly suggestive in favor of a particular hypothesis is sometimes called smoking gun evidence. Its name originally came from the idea of finding a smoking gun on the person of a suspect wanted for shooting someone, which in that situation would be nearly unshakable proof of having committed the crime. A piece of evidence that falls just short of being conclusive is sometimes referred to as a "smoldering gun."

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1. smoking gun

   Song lyrics by smoking gun -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by smoking gun on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Evidence

How to pronounce smoking gun?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of smoking gun in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of smoking gun in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of smoking gun in a Sentence

1. Robert Danin:

   For the administration, this was the smoking gun, the proof that in fact there was this collusion between the Republicans and Israel.

2. The Justice Department:

   There is no smoking gun here ; only smoke and mirrors.

3. Rob Joyce:

   People are always looking for the smoking gun in these technologies, i characterize it much more as a loaded gun.

4. Richard Clayton of Cambridge University:

   It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell.

5. Brent Bozell:

   This video is the smoking gun. Google’s leadership is decidedly anti-Trump and there is no doubt that their company practices reflect that, we need hearings now. Google cannot continue to run and hide.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=smoking gun
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=smoking gun
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Smoking_Gun
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_Gun
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=smoking gun