Heard on "Aqua Team Hunger Force"

[Wilson Gray]

"Carl," a white, animated-cartoon character says:

"I gotta _cop a squat_"

and literally squats behind a bush in order to  _take a dump_.


I've known "cop a squat" in BE with the meaning, "have a seat," since
ca.1955.  I heard it used, once, with that same meaning by a white
person, to wit: Richard Belzer, in an episode of Homicide : Life on
the Street, ca.1998.

This is the first time that I've heard it used with a different meaning.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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