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Harlem sunset

noun

Etymology

Used in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1940), suggesting the red colour of a sunset.

Definitions

  1. A fatal wound caused by a knife fight.

    • One time there was five smokes carved Harlem sunsets on each other down on East Eighty-four.
    • This wasn't some punk carving Harlem sunsets on a drugstore attendant. This was a professional job.
    • The blade had been inches from showing Moe a Harlem sunset. A longer knife, or an extra twist, and Moe would've bled to death before the meat wagon arrived.

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