Old Sparky

English

Proper noun

Old Sparky

  1. (US, slang) Nickname for an electric chair used for executions.
    • 1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile, page 3:
      […] 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.
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