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).

Synonyms

crouch

sit

🪑

dumpy

cower

squatting

hunker down

stumpy

sit on one’s heels

podgy

squatty

stocky

chunky

squat down

hunker

diddly-squat

crouch down

underslung

sit down

scrunch

diddley

diddly-shit

diddlyshit

diddlysquat

squab

diddly

shit

💩

scrunch up

doodly-squat

knee bend

occupy

low-set

squat about

perch

kneel

be squatting

jack

bend down

thickset

kneeling

low

low-lying

low-pitched

mount

overcome

overrun

overwhelm

place

pudgy

raid

roly poly

roly-poly

seize

settle

settle down

shack

shallow

shanty

short

shorten

sink

sliver

small

stoop

stout

structure

subside

take

take over

thick-set

trespass

tubby

whelm

be lame

cuddle up

fubsy

square-built

low-rise

bending over

squabby

squatting posture

short and plump

move in on

vessel squat

chanky

sit on my knees

absorb

squat toilet

alight

barrack

be

bend

brief

building

buzz off

camp

capture

carry

chubby

compact

concise

construction

🚧

contract

corner

cringe

curl up

curtsy

deep

drop down

dwelling

edifice

encroach

encroach upon

engulf

fabric

fat

grip

hang

heavyset

hole

🕳️

home

🏠

house

🏠

hunch

hut

🛖

hutch

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.