Chicago

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

• Syn: ↑Michigan, ↑Newmarket, ↑boodle, ↑stops

• Hypernyms: ↑card game, ↑cards