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."

References

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