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electric chair definition

☆ electric chair

  1. an apparatus in the form of a chair, used in electrocuting persons sentenced to death
  2. the death sentence by electrocution

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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