(usually the electric chair) (also informal the chair) noun
[sing.] (especially in the US) 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.
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