hot squat

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Noun

hot squat (plural hot squats)

(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."

References

“hot squat, n.” under “hot, adj. and n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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