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gas chambers

gas chambers is the plural of gas chamber.

Meaning of gas chamber

Noun

gas chamber (plural gas chambers)

  1. A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
    • There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he...2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones)
  2. (figuratively) Any close, stinking room or place.
    • Leiter wound down a window. 'Whaddya want ter do?' asked the driver over his shoulder. 'Gimme pneumony?' 'Just that,' said Leiter, 'if it means saving us from this gas chamber.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 38

Questions about gas chambers

What is gas chambers the plural of?
Gas chambers is the plural of gas chamber.

Words near gas chambers in the dictionary

  1. gas caps
  2. gas car
  3. gas centrifuge
  4. gas centrifuges
  5. gas chamber
  6. gas chambers
  7. gas check
  8. gas chromatograph
  9. gas chromatographs
  10. gas chromatography
  11. gas clathrate

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