"give someone the chair" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-give someone the chair.ogg [Australia] Forms: gives someone the chair [present, singular, third-person], giving someone the chair [participle, present], gave someone the chair [past], given someone the chair [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|give<,,gave,given> someone the chair}} give someone the chair (third-person singular simple present gives someone the chair, present participle giving someone the chair, simple past gave someone the chair, past participle given someone the chair)
  1. (chiefly US, idiomatic) To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair. Tags: US, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-give_someone_the_chair-en-verb-7f0p0YKl Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

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