clincher

He, too, looked damn near unplayable defensively early in the Finals, but Bud stuck with him, and he came through with 16 points off the bench in the clincher as the delirious crowd repeatedly chanted his name.
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This was a clincher—assorted worthies sent their own medals back in protest but everyone else was delighted.
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The real clincher, though, is that their only instruments are a drum set and dozens of beer bottles.
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The doubling of images of, say, the finger when the eyeball is pressed, is frequently proffered as a clincher.
Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey

In the South an expression of this kind is very often added on as a sort of clincher to give emphasis.
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce
This last was a clincher and the obscurantic antisalts received the deathblow they richly deserved.
Greener Than You Think|Ward Moore
And he backed his assertion with an oath, swallowing off the contents of his glass by way of a clincher.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.|Various
It is a clincher which no sophistry can set aside, no reasoning can grapple with, and no logic overthrow.
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British Dictionary definitions for clincher

clincher

/ (ˈklɪntʃə) /

noun

informal something decisive, such as a fact, score, etc

a person or thing that clinches

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