From Wiktionary: Blended jocular mock-Latin word. Arose in America in the 19th century (about 1837). Probably made up of the following parts: The Latin adverb and prefix ab, "away (from)", (maybe taken from abscond), the suffix -ate (maybe taken from perambulate or undulate), and the middle portion, "squatul", which might be a derivation of to squat. Obsolete by 1900.
absquatulation: the action of going away suddenly and squatting somewhere; making off, decamping.
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That's a nice combination of squat and the corner I've referred to multiple times.
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