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Chicago has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

"Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and a bustling Great Lakes port extending twenty-six miles along Lake Michigan's southwestern shoreline, thrives as a major economic hub."

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

"During their late-night session, the friends gathered around the table to play Chicago using two separate decks."

Proper Noun
1

A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.

"Visitors often flock to Chicago, the bustling county seat of Cook County in northeastern Illinois situated on Lake Michigan."

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
card game

Origin

From French Chécagou, a transcription of Miami šikaakwa ("wild leek, ramp, Allium tricoccum; striped skunk"), from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa; compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh / zhigaagawinzh ("onion, leek"), zhigaag ("striped skunk"). Doublet of skunk.

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