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smok·ing gun

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Princeton's WordNet

  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.

Wikipedia

  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

    A smoking gun is a piece of evidence that conclusively proves guilt or culpability. The term originates from the idea that finding a smoking gun at a crime scene directly ties a person to committing the crime. It is often used in discussions of investigations or legal proceedings.

Wikidata

  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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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. Ian MacKay:

    Even then there may not be any single 'smoking gun'.

  2. David Golub:

    The middle school sharings document is a smoking gun, it shows that the school system knew, but ignored the school board's anti-bullying polices.

  3. Peter Schweizer:

    The smoking gun is in the pattern of behavior.

  4. Lindsey Graham:

    There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw.

  5. Tom Fitton:

    This material shows that the IRS‘ cover-up began years ago, we now have smoking-gun proof that top officials in the Obama IRS unlawfully harassed taxpayers just to keep them from complaining to Congress about IRS‘ targeting and abuse. No wonder the Obama IRS has had such little interest in preserving or finding Lois Lerner’s emails.


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