sizzle v.
1. (US Und.) to execute in the electric chair [SE hot].
 | Pensacola News Jrnl (FL) 12 Sept. 1/4: A couple of careless Georgia safecrackers were sizzled in the electric chair. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Living Rough 135: They kept him in the cooler for six months and then sizzles him, put him on the hot stool. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 209: If they sizzled me in the hot seat it would put the fear of God in the hearts of other mad dogs. | |
| Des Moines Trib. (IA) 25 May 1/2: ‘We saw a man sizzled today [...] the man didn’t die instantly’. | |
| Chicago Trib. 30 Oct. section 18 8/3: ‘Sparky,’ a character that looks uncannily like the Cryptkeeper [...] gets periodically sizzled in an electric chair. |
2. (US drugs) to be exceptionally prone to arrest, esp. when holding drugs or acting in an outrageous manner [hot adj. (5a)].
| Und. Speaks n.p.: Sizzling, in imminent danger of arrest or raid. | |
| Drugs from A to Z (1970). | |
| Juba to Jive. |
In compounds
(US prison) the electric chair.
| Fort Lauderdale News (FL) 5 Dec. 1/4: [headline] Bruno May Still Escape Sizzle Seat. | |
| ‘Jail, Jail, the Gang’s All Here’ in 10 Detectives Aces Apr. 🌐 Will you wear a posy when you sit in the sizzle sofa, Rosy? | |
| Tampa trib. (FL) 5 Dec. 8/6: [cartoon caption] ‘Hard to forget I was waitin’ to keep a date with th’ sizzle seat’. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Ottowa Jrnl (Ontario) 4 July 49/7: [cartoon caption] ‘et’s go, baby — unless you want to end up in the sizzle seat’. | |
| Prison Sl. 105: Sizzle Seat An electric chair. |