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smok·ing gun

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  1. smoking gunnoun

    indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)

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  1. Peter Schweizer:

    The smoking gun is in the pattern of behavior.

  2. Nathan Sales:

    It is not a smoking gun -- but it is a bombshell.

  3. Ken Farley:

    The crystals within the rock provided the smoking gun.

  4. Ian MacKay:

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

  5. 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.


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