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What (who) is squat - definition
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Squats; Squat (disambiguation)
squat
(squats, squatting, squatted)
1.
If you squat, you lower yourself towards the ground, balancing on your feet with your legs bent.
We squatted beside the pool and watched the diver sink slowly down...
He came over and squatted on his heels, looking up at the boys.
= crouch
VERB: V, V on n
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Albert squatted down and examined it...
She had squatted down on her heels.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P prep
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Squat is also a noun.
He bent to a squat and gathered the puppies on his lap.
N-SING: a N
2.
If you describe someone or something as squat, you mean they are short and thick, usually in an unattractive way.
Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thinning hair.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
People who squat occupy an unused building or unused land without having a legal right to do so.
You can't simply wander around squatting on other people's property...
They earn their living by squatting the land and sharecropping.
VERB: V, V n
4.
A squat is an empty building that people are living in illegally, without paying any rent or any property tax.
After returning from Paris, David moved to a squat in Brixton...
N-COUNT
squat
I. v. n.
1.
Crouch, cower, sit close to the ground.
2.
[Modern.] Settle (without title to the land), plant one's self, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent.
II. a.
1.
Crouching, cowering.
2.
Dumpy, stubby, short and thick.
Squat
·noun A small vein of ore.
II. Squat ·noun A sudden or crushing fall.
III. Squat ·noun The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
IV. Squat ·vt To bruise or make flat by a fall.
V. Squat ·noun A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
VI. Squat ·adj Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
VII. Squat ·noun The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
VIII. Squat ·vt To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
IX. Squat ·adj Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
X. Squat ·vt To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
XI. Squat ·vt To sit close to the ground; to Cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
Examples of use of squat
1. Others squat because they have nowhere else to live.
2. They squat, using special stirrups and very light saddles.
3. Women in crimson and green saris squat in doorways and pots dry in the midday sun.
4. A good panettone should be tall and light, but this was squat and heavy.
5. Juan Zamora, a squat taxi driver, idles a few steps away.