English Explanatory Dictionary

Harlem sunset

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fatal wound caused by a knife fight.

Word forms

Harlem sunset Harlem sunsets

Etymology

Used in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (1940), suggesting the red colour of a sunset.

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