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Definition of 'Smoking Gun'
Something that serves as indisputable evidence or proof, especially of a crime.
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Investopedia explains 'Smoking Gun'
Here is an example used in everyday language from CNN.com on Feb 6, 2002:
"Maybe there was no proof before, but there is now; a secret memo - personally handed to [U.S. Vice-President Dick] Cheney by Ken Lay [ex-Enron chairman and CEO], which helps explain why the White House is so skittish about Enron and why Cheney and [U.S. President George W.] Bush stubbornly refuse to release the records of those energy task force meetings. The memo was obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle and reported exclusively there last week. This is the Enron smoking gun."
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Search results for 'Smoking Gun'
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http://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/092403.asp
... Smoking Gun The expression "smoking gun" comes from the early 1900s when
the legal system began to solidify into a standard model. ...
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http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2008/The-Stock-Market-Time-Warp-DIS-AXP-JPM1124.aspx
... particularly insightful on this matter, and in a recent column in Forbes, market
strategist Laszlo Birinyi confirmed that there is no smoking gun for those ...
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http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/frank-quattrone-internet-dotcom-bubble.asp
... the upcoming case. With vital evidence now deleted, that email became the
smoking gun that hinged the case. Quattrone did not bring ...
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http://financialedge.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1109/Bear-Stearns-Defense-Holds-Lessons-For-Execs.aspx
... Their "greatest hits" emails, which they apparently viewed as a smoking gun,
actually turned out to help the defense when put in context. ...
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