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Chicago_overcoat

Chicago overcoat

English

Noun

Chicago overcoat (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Death; being killed or murdered.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 189:
      ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’
      ‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’