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- noun US, slang
Death ; being killed or murdered.
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mollusque commented on the word Chicago overcoat
It is very difficult for the literary man to distinguish between a genuine crook term (like "back-door parole," prison slang for dying in prison) and an invented one (like "Chicago overcoat" for coffin).
--Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, p. 218 (18 May 1950
February 9, 2010