Verb: To display and bring attention to an empty chair/podium from someone who chickened out of an interview/debate that they promised to do as a method of humiliation.
Boris Johnson refuses to show up for the second Leaders debate about climate change, so a petition has been made for Channel 4 to empty chair him.
by JourneyLT November 22, 2019
Get the Empty Chairmug. "Did you notice that Chris Christie barely even mentioned Mitt Romney in his speech at the Republican National Convention?"
"Yeah, it was a total empty chair."
"Yeah, it was a total empty chair."
by dscully September 5, 2012
Get the empty chairmug.