Synonyms for smoking gun
smok·ing gun

Princeton's WordNet

1. smoking gunnoun

   indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)

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1. • Evidence

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1. 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.

2. Lindsey Graham:

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

3. Amit Re’em:

   We’re still searching, we’re looking for the smoking gun, the hard evidence that will enable us to tell people that this is the Tomb of the Maccabees.

4. Rob Joyce:

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

5. Peter Schweizer:

   The smoking gun is in the pattern of behavior, most people that engage in criminal insider trading don't send an email and say, 'I've got inside information -- buy this stock.'.