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electric chair n. A device used for execution of criminals, consisting of a specially designed chair in which the victim is killed by passing a large current of electricity through the body. This method of killing is called electrocution.

Synonyms: the chair, death chair, hot seat.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Electric chair" Quotes from Famous Books

... came to an end. The defendant in the "Death House" at Sing Sing had invoked every expedient to escape punishment, and by the use of his knowledge had even saved a fellow prisoner, "Mike" Brush, from the electric chair.] ...

— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train

... Lauras or something and not wear us all out before we got here but no it was drill every ft. of the way and I said to Johnny Alcock the night we got here that when they was sending us up here to die they might at lease give us a ride and he says no because when they send a man to the electric chair they don't push him up there in a go cart but they make him get there on his own dogs. So I said "Yes but he travels light and he don't half to go far and when he gets there they's a chair waiting for him to set down in it but they load us up like a troop ship and ...

— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner

Words linked to "Electric chair" : instrument of execution, chair, death chair