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n. (chain letter English)
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Chain Letters is a British television game show produced by Tyne Tees. The show was filmed at their City Road studios in Newcastle Upon Tyne and first broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom from 7 September 1987 to 6 July 1990, then again from 2 January 1995 to 25 April 1997.
Three contestants competed to win money by changing letters in words to form new words. Its original host was Jeremy Beadle, followed by Andrew O'Connor, Allan Stewart, Ted Robbins, Vince Henderson and Dave Spikey.
Chain Letters is the second album from North Carolina hip hop artist Supastition. "Hate My Face" was released as a single but did not chart.
Usage examples of "chain letters".
This wasn't at all like the other chain letters she had received over the years.
Most chain letters continue to circulate due to the age-old force of superstition.
There were love-letters, hate-letters, ransom notes, pleadings, sheets on which men had drawn round their hard-ons, valentines of pubic hair, blackmail by wives, journalists, hustlers, lawyers and senators, junk-mail and suicide notes, lost novels, chain letters, resumes, undelivered gifts, rejected gifts, letters sent out into the wilderness like bottles from an island, in the hope of finding help, poems, threats and recipes.
The taunts are meant for Jean-Baptiste to hear, and he receives written cruelties, too, in the form of notesor kites, as they are calledthat are passed through cracks beneath the doors, cell to cell, like chain letters, until he is the final recipient.
She always thought about throwing chain letters into the fire, even when the instructions promised dire magical consequences.