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Audio Help [skwot] Pronunciation Key, verb, squat·ted or squat, squat·ting, adjective, squat·ter, squat·test, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.

2.	to crouch down or cower, as an animal.

3.	to settle on or occupy property, esp. otherwise unoccupied property, without any title, right, or payment of rent.

4.	to settle on public land under government regulation, in order to acquire title.

5.	Nautical. (of a vessel, esp. a power vessel) to draw more water astern when in motion forward than when at rest.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to cause to squat.

7.	to occupy (property) as a squatter.

–adjective

8.	(of a person, animal, the body, etc.) short and thickset.

9.	low and thick or broad: The building had a squat shape.

10.	seated or being in a squatting position; crouching.

–noun

11.	the act or fact of squatting.

12.	a squatting position or posture.

13.	a weightlifting exercise in which a person squats and then returns to an erect position while holding a barbell at the back of the shoulders.

14.	Nautical. the tendency of a vessel to draw more water astern when in motion than when stationary.

15.	Slang. doodly-squat.

16.	a place occupied by squatters.

[Origin: 1250–1300; (v.) ME squatten < OF esquater, esquatir, equiv. to es- ex-¹ + quatir < VL *coactīre to compress, equiv. to L coāct(us), ptp. of cōgere to compress (co- co- + ag(ere) to drive + -tus ptp. suffix) + -īre inf. suffix; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; (adj.) ME: in a squatting position, orig., ptp. of the v.

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—Related forms

squatly, adverb

squatness, noun

—Synonyms 8. dumpy, stocky, square.

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squat Audio Help   (skwŏt) Pronunciation Key
v.   squat·ted, squat·ting, squats

v.   intr.

To sit in a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels.
To crouch down, as an animal does.
To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim.
To occupy a given piece of public land in order to acquire title to it.

v. tr.

To put (oneself) into a crouching posture.
To occupy as a squatter.

adj. squat·ter, squat·test

Short and thick; low and broad.
Crouched in a squatting position.

The act of squatting.
A squatting or crouching posture.
Sports A lift or a weightlifting exercise in which one squats and stands while holding a weighted barbell supported by the back of the shoulders.
The place occupied by a squatter.
The lair of an animal such as a hare.
Slang A small or worthless amount; diddlysquat.

[Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, to crush : es-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + quatir, to press flat (from Vulgar Latin *coāctīre, from Latin coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to compress : co-, co- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots).]

squat'ter n.

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squatting
noun
1.	exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles [syn: knee bend]
2.	the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels [syn: squat]

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