noun
1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan (Freq. 25)
• Syn: ↑Windy City
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center, ↑port
• Part Holonyms: ↑Illinois, ↑Prairie State, ↑Land of Lincoln, ↑IL
• Part Meronyms: ↑Sears Tower, ↑University of Chicago
2. 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.