smoking gun

Synonyms for smoking gun

noun damning evidence

Rathburn slipped his smoking gun into his holster and mounted noiselessly.

He had the smoking gun in his hands, for he hadn't the wit to get rid of it.

Davis he shot, and saw him sway and fall flat, with a smoking gun in his hand.

Jim thrust his smoking gun into his belt and caught Craig by the arm.

Brennan was upon one knee near the central window, a smoking gun in his hand, a red welt showing ghastly across his cheek.

With a proud smile the old woman stood the smoking gun against the wall and straightened her cap.

Two French soldiers ran past Pierre, one of whom carried a lowered and smoking gun.

Mason shouted a warning to the girls and turned his smoking gun on the halfbreed.

He looked up and beheld the girl about whom he had been thinking, every muscle tense, a smoking gun still against her shoulder.

He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.