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electric chair

noun

Definitions

  1. A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.

    • The electric chair has always been linked to Sing Sing.
    • The Death House was Trenton State Prison's official name for the brick and concrete vault where condemned men lived in tiny cells and an electric chair stood hard against a nearby wall.

  2. An electrically powered wheelchair.

    • He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?"

  3. A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her…

    A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA