absquatulate

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  1. intransitive verb To depart in a hurry; abscond: "Your horse has absquatulated!” (Robert M. Bird).
  2. intransitive verb To die.
  3. intransitive verb Midwestern & Western U.S. To argue.
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  1. Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean "to go off and squat elsewhere”.

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  1. A feigned word, of American origin, simulating a L. derivation. Cf. abscond, ambulate.
 

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/æbˈskwɑtjuleɪt/
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