hot squat
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hot squat (plural hot squats)
- (US, slang) The electric chair.
- 1936, Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 151:
- "Hell," repeated Mr. Ogden. "Well, listen. They opine that in this country you don't get the hot squat, not without you earn it good and plenty."
References
- “hot squat, n.” under “hot, adj. and n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
