_Cop a squat!_ = "have a seat!, sit down!"

[Wilson Gray]

Heard this rara avis used on Keegan&Peele on the Comedy Channel, a few
days ago. Before that, I heard Richard Belzer use it in an episode of
Homicide: Life on the Street. Otherwise, I haven't heard it - even in
the various new meanings that is has accumulated - since the early
'50's in StL.

It's like "break nasty." I'm alone in considering to be so cool that
it should be on everyone's lips.

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-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.
-Mark Twain

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