electric chair noun3 •A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.The electric chair has always been linked to Sing Sing. — 2003 •(informal) An electrically powered wheelchair.He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?" — 2012 •A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction. formselectric chairs