"wooden kimono" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "A variation of earlier criminal slang such as wooden coat.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935, Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang Winter Annual, back cover",
          "text": "\"And you're just about ready to give up the ghost and call for a wooden kimono.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 19:",
          "text": "I expected the man to show up any minute with his tape measure to outfit me with a wooden kimono.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Tom Waits, Small Change, Asylum Records, 1976, Track #10",
          "text": "\"The wooden kimono was all ready to drop in San Francisco Bay, but now he's mumbling something all about the one that got away.\""
        }
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        "Synonym of coffin."
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        "(US, slang) Synonym of coffin."
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  "etymology_text": "A variation of earlier criminal slang such as wooden coat.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1935, Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang Winter Annual, back cover",
          "text": "\"And you're just about ready to give up the ghost and call for a wooden kimono.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 19:",
          "text": "I expected the man to show up any minute with his tape measure to outfit me with a wooden kimono.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Tom Waits, Small Change, Asylum Records, 1976, Track #10",
          "text": "\"The wooden kimono was all ready to drop in San Francisco Bay, but now he's mumbling something all about the one that got away.\""
        }
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        "Synonym of coffin."
      ],
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