Definition of deck chair
: a folding chair often having an adjustable leg rest
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As helicopters comb Miami Beach on the hunt for the fugitive, Cunanan settles into a deck chair to watch.
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Blood evidence suggests the newborn bounced off a railing, detectives testified, before hitting a deck chair and falling onto the deck.
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Evidence that moving a few deck chairs around won’t fix what ails the FBI.
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There’s no plot here but the slow, inevitable grind of deck chairs shuffling on an aggravated, unfair planet.
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The pool is beyond the right-field fence at Chase Field, surrounded by deck chairs like an oasis in this desert.
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There are plenty of park benches, tables with chairs, and cruise ship-worthy deck chairs to rest weary shopping bones.
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Over the past two decades, Jimmy Buffett has built a licensing and hospitality empire on the back of his most famous hit song, selling everything from hotel rooms to deck chairs and frozen shrimp through his company, Margaritaville Holdings.
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At a moment when the United Nations could play a major role at least as a prodding forum for creative negotiations, its managers seem to be engaged in little more than shuffling the deck chairs on a ship of fools.
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First Known Use of deck chair
1884
DECK CHAIR Defined for English Language Learners
deck chair
Definition of deck chair for English Language Learners
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: a chair that can be folded up and that is used for sitting outside on the deck of a ship, on a beach, etc.
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