Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The largest city of Illinois, in the northeast part of the state on Lake Michigan. It is a major port and the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center of the Midwest. It is also the third-largest U.S. city. Chicago was nearly destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1871. Population: 2,830,000.
- Chicago, Judy Born 1939. American artist best known for The Dinner Party (1979), a ceramic and needlepoint project depicting the social history of women in the Western world.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In card-playing and other games, to ‘skunk’ or ‘whitewash’ (an opposing side); that is, to prevent it from scoring any runs or points.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
- n. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
Etymologies
- From Miami or Potawatomi shikaakwa ("wild onion, leek” or “striped skunk"), via the French transcription Checagou. Compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh, zhigaagawinzh ("onion, leek"), zhigaag ("striped skunk"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This behemoth plane costs $53,000 PER HOUR to operate ... so, for him and his wife to have Valentine's Night dinner in their favorite CHICAGO night spot he spent how much of our TAX DOLLARS whisking himself, his family and STAFF to Chicago?”
Is Air Force One Becoming Obama's Mission Accomplished Albatross
“JOHN KASS, "CHICAGO TRIBUNE": Well, this is Chicago politics, OK?”
“MAYOR RICHARD DALEY, CHICAGO: In Chicago, you go to a community, you go to a large city or a small city.”
“EARLY NEXT YEAR, THE CHICAGO COP SHOP made famous by "" Hill Street Blues '' will house a new outfit: campus security for the University of Illinois at Chicago.”
“CHICAGO - Workers laid off from their jobs at a Chicago factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed.”
“RAYMOND OROZCO, CHICAGO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE: What I will tell you is that this cost of this event will not be paid for by the taxpayers of the City of Chicago.”
“RICK PEARSON, POLITICAL REPORTER, "THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE": Well, it sounds like the attorney general may have tried to interpret something from a tabloid Chicago newspaper report that said that the governor was considering resigning.”
“CHERYLE JACKSON, CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: What I have learned from people in Chicago, is that entrepreneurship is a real solution driving a lot of the social problems that the we see today.”
“JODY WEIS, CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT: I'm sure he would love to do something to help the city of Chicago.”
“JOHN KASS, "THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE": He's merely a Chicago politician who was caught on tape.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Chicago’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Sufjan Stevens invites you to Come On...
All things Sufjan.
Sufjan Stevens, Illinois, Michigan, Christmas, what would Frank ..., seven swans, revenant, Casimir Pulaski Day, Asthmatic Kitty, Enjoy Your Rabbit, Carl Sandburg, Superman and 50 more...
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Major Cities of the World
Mumbai, London, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Islamabad, Sydney, Dublin, Shanghai
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 111
mortgage, pay off, expenses, furnish, from now on, make do, needless, get a move on, blow one's top, give me a break, good life, blizzard and 3 more...
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OM2 Lesson 15
scream, carrot, slice, cut, myself, pot, pan, burn, youself, tell you what, treat, ourselves and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Chicago.
grandpa27 I am a native born in Chicago. My pronunciation of the city's name stamps me as native.
sha caw' go Apr 2, 2009