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chair
noun- the electric chair; the death penalty US, 1895
- I’m going to get that louse that killed you. He won’t sit in the chair. He won’t hang. He will die exactly as you died[.] — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 7, 1947
- Rub out a cop an’ you’ll really get the chair. — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, p. 125, 1947
- A little later, just about half dead already, they put Irvin in the chair and turned on the juice. — Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro Boy, p. 43, 1950
- The whole town knows that if he’d been a little older he’d have gone to the chair instead of reform school. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 19, 1952
- If Ready has killed some trick he was steering to Reba’s the chair’s too good for him. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 64, 1959
- Tell us the truth, Black, and you might beat the chair. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 226, 1960
- If he died, I would get the chair. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 242, 1967
- I’m not sayin’ you won’t go to jail, but you sure ain’t gotta go to the chair. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 208, 1968
- Maybe one day I’ll make you a really proud father–I’ll croak [kill] a whore and make the chair. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 45, 1971
- a motorcycle sidecar UK, 1984
- — Douglas Dunford, Motorcycle Department, Beaulieu Motor Museum, 1979
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