Westinghouse
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verb. [westinghoused]; [westinghousing]: fr. name of American inventor George Westinghouse. To put a person to death in an electric chair (which in early embodiments were operated from an AC power supply). The attachment of Mr. [Westinghouses] name to the electric chair was a form of negative advertizing devised by Thomas Edison.
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