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the squits
verb
To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
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He's got the squits!
More squirminess than a sack of snakes with the squits: check.
Which, let's be honest, is the squits by any other name.
Mate: "The squits!." There were also Goon verses like "The Ying-Tong Song," consisting almost entirely of unintelligible but solemnly delivered patter.
That a five-year-old can die from one day to the next from something as stupid as the squits because governments, funders, most people refuse to talk or think about it: that's disgusting.
Only when she looked into why so many Liberian women were dying in childbirth, and why children were dying of something as banal as the squits, did she realise "there is a relationship with water and sanitation.
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Jeremy Irvine's Pip – like Douglas Booth's in the recent TV adaptation – is too plain pretty for the callow squit of the book.
But diarrhoea – the boring, unremarkable squits – kills 300 children every hour, and where is the uproar about that?
I'll leave the airport with red eyes, squits in my pants, irritable, we will have arrived.
Everyone is spot-on, but two get a real chance to shine: Leah Brotherhead is moving and desperately funny as the needy Lea, whose verbal squits disguise a yearning need to be loved, and James Alexandrou is creepily hilarious as the almost electively mute schoolboy superman who obsessively stuffs his face with junk food as if trying to fill a black hole deep inside of himself.
The Wendy Williams Show Michael Ealy ("The Following").
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