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electric chair en · NOUN

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1. A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.
   • 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. 2013, James S. Hirsch, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter, →ISBN, page 1:
   • The electric chair has always been linked to Sing Sing. 2003, Guy Cheli, Sing Sing Prison, →ISBN:
   • The current path in an electric chair is from a scalp electrode to a calf electrode. The current is therefore passing the brain and the brain stem, the lung and the heart. It is believed that the person becomes unconscious immediately after current onset, but it is well known that death is not immediate. The electric chair was used for the first time in 1890, and the first jolt was with 1400 V 60 Hz applied for 17 seconds, which proved insufficient. 2000, Sverre Grimnes, Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen, Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, →ISBN, page 309:
2. (informal) An electrically powered wheelchair.
   • While I was "driving" in my electric chair to the only liquor store in town, the owner of the store would always smile when he saw me and say, "I don't know if I should sell to you. I don't want to be responsible for you drinking and driving." 2012, Sandra I. Bordenca, It's Okay to Laugh Sometimes, →ISBN, page 40:
   • He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?" 2012, Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, →ISBN, page 36:
   • She much preferred her manual wheelchair, so we got into the routine of using the manual chair out of school, and the electric chair at school. The one thing that she did find amusing about the electric chair was that she had to take a 'driving test'. 2006, Molvia Maddox, Perfectly Flawed, →ISBN, page 90:
3. 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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Old Sparky

Translations (38)

is rafmagnsstóll (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · mk електрична столица (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ka ელექტროსკამი (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ja 電気椅子 (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ar كُرْسِيّ كَهْرَبَائِيّ (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · cmn 電刑 /电刑 (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · fr chaise électrique (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · de elektrischer Stuhl (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · az elektrik stulu (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ru электри́ческий стул (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · sv elektriska stolen (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · cmn 電椅 /电椅 (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · fi sähköpyörätuoli (electrically powered wheelchair) · es silla eléctrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · hu villamosszék (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · el ηλεκτρική αναπηρική πολυθρόνα (electrically powered wheelchair) · cmn 電動輪椅 /电动轮椅 (electrically powered wheelchair) · pt cadeira de rodas elétrica (electrically powered wheelchair) · ast siella llétrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · nl elektrische stoel (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · pl krzesło elektryczne (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ur برقی کرسی (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · cs elektrické křeslo (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · pa ਬਿਜਲਈ ਕੁਰਸੀ (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ca cadira elèctrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ko 전기의자 (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · et elektriratastool (electrically powered wheelchair) · tl silya elektrika (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · br kador-dredan (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · gl cadeira eléctrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · pt cadeira elétrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · el ηλεκτρική καρέκλα (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · et elektritool (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · ro scaun electric (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · tr elektrikli sandalye (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · mn цахилгаан сандал (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · fi sähkötuoli (device used for performing execution by electrocution) · it sedia elettrica (device used for performing execution by electrocution)