SQUAT

squat, underslung

(adjective) having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground

chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy

(adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; “some people seem born to be square and chunky”; “a dumpy little dumpling of a woman”; “dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears”; “a little church with a squat tower”; “a squatty red smokestack”; “a stumpy ungainly figure”

squat, squatting

(noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels

jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit

(noun) a small worthless amount; “you don’t know jack”

squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down

(verb) sit on one’s heels; “In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting”; “The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm”

squat

(verb) occupy (a dwelling) illegally

squat

(verb) be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; “The building squatted low”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

squat (comparative squatter, )

Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

Noun

squat (plural squats)

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

(exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

(weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).

A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.

A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.

A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.

(slang, North American) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.

Synonyms: nothing, Thesaurus:nothing

(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.

(mining) A small vein of ore.

A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

Verb

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

(exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

(weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.

To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.

To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.

Etymology 2

Noun

squat (plural squats)

The angel shark (genus Squatina).

Anagrams

• Quast, quats

Source: Wiktionary

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Squat, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The angel fish (Squatina angelus

Squat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squatting.] Etym: [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. cogere to drive or urge together. See Cogent, Squash, v. t.]

1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

Squat, v. t.

Definition: To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.]

Squat, a.

1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. Milton.

2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret." R. Browning. The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat. Grew.

Squat, n.

1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs.] erbert.

3. (Mining) (a) A small vein of ore. (b) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. Halliwell. Woodward. Squat snipe (Zoöl.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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