hot squat

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Noun

hot squat (plural hot squats)

  1. (US, slang) The electric chair.
    Synonyms: hot chair, hot seat
    to get the hot squat
    • 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."

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