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/skwˈɑtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Squat v. t. To bruise or make flat by a fall. (Obs.)

Squat v. i. (past & past part. squatted; pres. part. squatting)

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

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

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

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Etymology of 'Squatting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Squatting" Quotes from Famous Books

... Measures continue to address Guatemalan land and maritime claims in Belize and the Caribbean Sea; the Line of Adjacency created under the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belize's border region; Mexico must deal with thousands of impoverished Guatemalans and other Central Americans who cross the porous border looking for work in ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... we don't. Fancy they're just beginning pool now, on that stunning table. Come along, Brown; don't miss your chance. We shall be sure to divide the pools, as we've missed the claret. Cool hands and cool heads, you know. Green on brown, pink your player in hand! That's a good deal pleasanter than squatting here all night ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... and a likely spot to make an easy kill. Cautioning the German to utter silence with a gesture the two approached the stream quietly. Down the game trail Tarzan saw some deer about to leave the water. He shoved Schneider into the brush at one side and, squatting next him, waited. The German watched the silent giant with puzzled, frightened eyes. In the new dawn he, for the first time, was able to obtain a good look at his captor, and, if he had been puzzled and frightened before, those sensations ...

— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... doing, General, but O'Connor's. I was as much surprised as yourself when I saw Burke squatting over the fire frying three fine fish. I asked him where he had stolen them. He told me that Mr. O'Connor brought them in at ...

— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty

... of Sura-kerta I recollect that once, when holding a private conference with the Susunan at the residency, it became necessary for the Radan adipati to be dispatched to the palace for the royal seal: the poor old man was, as usual, squatting, and as the Susunan happened to be seated with his face toward the door, it was fully ten minutes before his minister, after repeated ineffectual attempts, could obtain the opportunity of rising sufficiently ...

— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas

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