What does squat mean?
Squat means Relatively short or low, and thick or broad..
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/skwɒt/ · adjective
Relatively short or low, and thick or broad..
The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.
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. […]
On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges […]
[H]im there they found, / Squat like a toad, cloſe at the ear of Eve, / Aſſaying by his deviliſh art to reach / The organs of her fancy', and with them forge / Illuſions as he liſt, phantaſms and dreams, […]
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
"Keeping your friends warm and dry, that doesn't happen here. If you want to spend a night in a squat, it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' "My house is your house" rhetoric has become hollow.
I know squat about nuclear physics.
Use squat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Squat means Relatively short or low, and thick or broad..
Common synonyms include nothing, short, low, chunky.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.
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