Chicago overcoat

Chicago overcoat

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Noun

Chicago overcoat (plural Chicago overcoats)

1. (US, slang) A coffin; hence (figuratively) death; being killed or murdered.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 189:

     ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’

     ‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’

2. (US, slang) Synonym of cement shoes.