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Squat

skwɒt

Squat definitions

verb

Inflections:

squats squatting squatted squat

crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs

"I squatted down in front of him"

Synonyms:
crouch (down) hunker (down) sit on one's haunches sit on one's heels sit bend down bob down duck down hunch cower cringe
- crouch down with one's knees bent and rise again while holding (a specified weight) across one's shoulders
  
  "he can squat 850 pounds"
unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land

"eight families are squatting in the house"
- unlawfully occupy (an uninhabited building)
  
  "Clare, Briony, and the others had squatted the old council house"
- occupy a tract of Crown land in order to graze cattle or sheep
  
  "many people moved further out and squatted on the land"

adjective

Inflections:

squatter squattest squat

short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide

"he was muscular and squat"

Synonyms:
stocky dumpy stubby stumpy short thickset heavily built sturdy sturdily built heavyset chunky solid low stumpy short small stocky stunted

noun

Inflections:

squat squats

a squatting position
- an exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across one's shoulders
- (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action
a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so

"a basement room in a North London squat"
- an unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building
  
  "this squat cost the ratepayer £46,000"