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Chicago

/ʃɪˈkɑ.ɡoʊ/ noun C1
  1. Any of various forms of the game of pool, designed for gambling. (uncountable)
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When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1
“I have heard him talk of Chicago.
The Valley of Fear, p. 51 · C1
They hunted me from Chicago to California, then they chased me out of America; but when I married and settled down in this quiet spot I thought my last years were going to be peaceable.
The Valley of Fear, p. 95 · C1
He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 75 · B2

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