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Definition of electric chair noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

electric chair

 noun
noun
 
the electric chair (informal the chair) [singular]
 
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a chair in which criminals are killed by passing a powerful electric current through their bodies; the method of execution which uses this chair He was sent to the electric chair. They face death by the electric chair.
See electric chair in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary