smoking gun

Definition of "smoking gun"
  1. Conclusive evidence that decisively proves a claim
How to use "smoking gun" in a sentence
  1. The retrieved emails were the smoking gun that sealed the fraud case.
  2. The recorded conversation provided the smoking gun in the bribery investigation.
  3. After searching through volumes of data, they finally found a smoking gun which proved the corporation's wrongdoing.

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