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noun
indisputable proof or evidence of a crime.
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Origin of smoking gun First recorded in 1970â75
Words nearby smoking gun smokestack industry ,
smoke tree ,
smokey ,
smoking car ,
smoking-concert ,
smoking gun ,
smoking jacket ,
smoking lamp ,
smoking room ,
smoking stand ,
smoko
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corroboration ,
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How to use smoking gun in a sentence âWeâre hoping to find a smoking gun ,â Haines said, but âitâs challenging to do that.â
While Kateâs decision to go to Martinâs house appears to be the smoking gun in Jeanetteâs case, the show itself doesnât reinforce that victim blaming.
We have no hard evidence to support the lab leak idea, let alone a smoking gun to validate that hypothesis.
Researchers also have found coronavirus fragments that are similar to SARS-CoV-2 in bats native to southeast Asia, but no smoking gun yet.
It deliberately exaggerates what they present as smoking gun over-credited projects.
âYou can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,â Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun â how hard was that, right?
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
Friasâwho was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxicationâwas not carrying a gun at the time.
He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
Columbus found the natives of San Salvador smoking after this manner.
When Cortez made conquest of Mexico in 1519 smoking seemed to be a common as well as an ancient custom among the natives.
This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
In 1629 he found the Hurons smoking the dried leaves and stalks of the Tobacco plant or petune.
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British Dictionary definitions for smoking gun
noun
a piece of irrefutable incriminating evidence
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Other Idioms and Phrases with smoking gun
Something that serves as indisputable evidence or proof, especially of a crime. For example, There is no smoking gun in the Oval Office; the President had no role in tampering with the evidence . This expression alludes to the smoke coming from a recently discharged firearm, a normal occurrence until the invention of smokeless powder. [Mid-1900s]
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