squat

Meaning

Adj

1. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
2. Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

Noun

1. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
2. Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
3. 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) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value.
8. A small vein of ore.
9. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
10. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.

Verb

1. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
2. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
3. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
4. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
5. To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
6. To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
7. To cybersquat.
8. (slang) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.

Noun

The angel shark (genus Squatina).

Concepts

squat

crouch

sit

dumpy

cower

hunker down

stumpy

squatting

sit on one’s heels

squatty

podgy

stocky

hunker

chunky

squat down

knee bend

underslung

scrunch

scrunch up

diddley

diddly

diddly-shit

diddly-squat

diddlyshit

diddlysquat

doodly-squat

shit

squab

sit down

crouch down

thickset

low-set

jack

perch

squat about

be squatting

occupy

bend down

kneel

camp

encroach

trespass

curtsy

brief

concise

short

short and plump

heavyset

vessel squat

squatting posture

fubsy

hunch

small

squabby

hole

be lame

contract

cuddle up

curl up

shorten

be

settle down

chanky

chubby

pudgy

roly poly

tubby

sit on my knees

fat

thick-set

alight

mount

deep

low

low-lying

low-pitched

low-rise

shallow

buzz off

drop down

hang

settle

sink

stoop

subside

compact

square-built

stout

absorb

capture

carry

corner

encroach upon

engulf

grip

move in on

overcome

overrun

overwhelm

raid

seize

take

take over

whelm

cringe

bending over

kneeling

bend

squat toilet

roly-poly

barrack

building

construction

dwelling

edifice

fabric

home

house

hut

hutch

place

shack

shanty

sliver

structure

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skwɒt/

Etymology

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.