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Squat   /skwɑt/   Listen
Squat

adjective
(compar. squatter; superl. squattest)
1.
Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.  Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy.  "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"
2.
Having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground.  Synonym: underslung.
noun
1.
Exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles.  Synonyms: knee bend, squatting.
2.
A small worthless amount.  Synonyms: diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit.
3.
The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels.  Synonym: squatting.
verb
(past & past part. squatted; pres. part. squatting)
1.
Sit on one's heels.  Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up.  "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
2.
Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide.
3.
Occupy (a dwelling) illegally.



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"Squat" Quotes from Famous Books



... into town to watch, each lot led by its sultani in filthy rags and the foolish imitation crown his conquerors had supplied him at several times its proper price. The square was a dense sea of people before nine o'clock, and the askaris made the front few hundreds lie, and the next rows squat, in order that the men ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... turned, where a wire gate lay flat upon the ground, crossed a pebbly creek and galloped stiffly up to the very steps of a squat, vine-covered ranch-house where, like the Discontented Pendulum in the fable, ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
... again, and at length the squat log buildings of Pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night. Tired and hungry, we stabled our horses, ate a bite, and rolled ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... to lead the party through the intricate system of communication trenches to the front. Berger, who was a short, squat fellow with a sallow face and uneasy black eyes, took his seat ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock
... lacquer box polished for generations. By nine all the fire and confusion had gone out of the sky, leaving wedges of apple-green and plates of pale yellow; and by ten the lanterns on the boat were making twisted colours upon the waves, elongated or squat, as the waves stretched or humped themselves. The beam from the lighthouse strode rapidly across the water. Infinite millions of miles away powdered stars twinkled; but the waves slapped the boat, ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf


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