smoking gun

  

Definition

Information or documentation that serves as indisputable evidence to back up some sort of claim. The term was coined based on the idea of catching someone with a smoking gun after a murder. "The cell phone record of the defendant was the smoking gun that led to his conviction in the telemarketing scam."

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