Chicago overcoat
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English
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Noun
[edit]Chicago overcoat (plural Chicago overcoats)
- (US, slang) A coffin; hence (figuratively) death; being killed or murdered.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 189:
- ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’
‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’
- (US, slang) Synonym of concrete overcoat or synonym of cement shoes.
Related terms
[edit]- Chicago lightning (“gunfire”), Chicago typewriter (“tommy gun”)
Further reading
[edit]- “Chicago overcoat n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present