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Old Sparky

Old Sparky proper noun: nickname for an electric chair used for executions.

Proper noun

Old Sparky

  1. (US, slang) Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.
    • […]and I think that, for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the stout oak of “Old Sparky’s” legs.1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3

Questions about Old Sparky

What does Old Sparky mean?
Old Sparky means nickname for an electric chair used for executions.
What part of speech is Old Sparky?
Old Sparky is a proper noun.

Words near Old Sparky in the dictionary

  1. old sourdough
  2. old sourdoughs
  3. Old South
  4. Old South Arabian
  5. Old Spanish
  6. Old Sparky
  7. old sport
  8. old sports
  9. old squaw
  10. old squaws
  11. old stager

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