Squat

Quick meaning: Squat is an adjective meaning Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

Meaning

Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

More Meanings

1. Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
2. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
3. (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
4. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
5. A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
6. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
7. (slang, Canada, US, uncountable) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.

Example Sentences

I know squat about nuclear physics.

Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.

Your dumb self can't appreciate the freedom in my thought / The weak sense of autonomy when I'm flipping in my squat

What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]

Word Forms

• squatter
• squattest
• squats
• squatting
• squatted

Synonyms for squat

Depending on context, synonyms include nothing, short, low, chunky, scrunch, squatty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dumpy, chunky, stumpy, squatty, scrunch, crouch.

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