Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) evidence, particularly of a crime, that is difficult or impossible to dispute.
WordNet
n. indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)
Wikipedia
Smoking Gun may refer to:
- Smoking gun, a reference to an object or fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act
- The Smoking Gun, a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots
- The Smoking Gunns, a wrestling tag team
- JFK: The Smoking Gun, a documentary and book on Howard Donahue's theory on the Kennedy assassination
- Smoking Gun Interactive, video game company
Smoking Gun is a 1986 song by Robert Cray. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, Cray was nominated for the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Artist in a Video for this song.
Smoking Gun is a 2009 album by Angus Stone operating under the name Lady of the Sunshine. It charted at #45 on the ARIA Charts.
The album was recorded over six weeks during 2008 with Finn (Govinda Doyle) – who also provided drums and bass guitar – in a converted old water tank on Finn's property in North Queensland. In an interview on national radio station, Triple J, with Richard Kingsmill, Stone said that the album came out of "growing an appetite for wanting to rock out". Stone explained that he had played in rock bands while in high school, they covered material by Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers – these influences are loosely present on Smoking Gun. To accompany the album Stone wrote "Every emotion in my head has its own voice and this record is what came of them .... I wanted these songs to have their own style. I enjoyed watching how the songs took on their own ride, most from the simplest of ideas". The album reached the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart. One of his tracks, " Big Jet Plane", from Smoking Gun was later re-recorded by Angus & Julia Stone and released by the duo as a single in May 2010.
is a 2014 Japanese television series based on the manga that aired on Fuji Television from April 9 to June 18, 2014. It starred Shingo Katori, Mariya Nishiuchi, Honami Suzuki and Shōsuke Tanihara.
Usage examples of "smoking gun".
He fell, sat down on the sidewalk, his eyes wide and questioning and fixed upon the smoking gun across the street.
Shocked, she turned her head and saw him still holding the smoking gun while trying to keep his balance.
The horse screamed and kicked but the bull had planted its feet and it lifted the animal rider and all clear of the ground before Miller could get his pistol free and when he put the muzzle to the bull's forehead and fired and the whole grotesque assembly collapsed he stepped clear of the wreckage and walked off in disgust with the smoking gun dangling in his hand.
The startled Yankee prisoners began to haul as though their lives depended on it, and the smoking gun trundled away across the rough ground so fast that it bounced two feet in the air when its wheels struck a sprawl-ing corpse.
Suddenly and simultaneously a crowd of memories awoke in his fancy- of the look Platon had given him as he sat under the tree, of the shot heard from that spot, of the dog's howl, of the guilty faces of the two Frenchmen as they ran past him, of the lowered and smoking gun, and of Karataev's absence at this halt- and he was on the point of realizing that Karataev had been killed, but just at that instant, he knew not why, the recollection came to his mind of a summer evening he had spent with a beautiful Polish lady on the veranda of his house in Kiev.