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Adjective
/skwät/,
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squatted, past participle; squats, 3rd person singular present; squatting, present participle; squatted, past tense;
  1. Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide
    • - he was muscular and squat
    • - a squat gray house
Verb
  1. Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs
    • - I squatted down in front of him
  2. Crouch down in such a way and rise again while holding (a specified weight) at one's shoulders
    • - he can squat 850 pounds
  3. Unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land
    • - eight families are squatting in the house
  4. Occupy (an uninhabited building) in such a way

Noun
  1. A position in which one's knees are bent and one's heels are close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs

  2. An exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell at shoulder level

  3. (in gymnastics) An exercise involving a squatting movement or action

  4. A building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so

  5. An unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building

  1. knee bend: exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
  2. chunky: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ...
  3. sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
  4. be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
  5. having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
  6. jack: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
  7. In strength training, the squat is an exercise that trains primarily the muscles of the thighs, hips and buttocks, as well as strengthening the bones, ligaments and insertion of the tendons throughout the lower body. ...
  8. The squat effect is the hydrodynamic phenomenon by which a vessel moving quickly through shallow water creates an area of lowered pressure under its bottom that causes the ship to "squat" lower in the water than would otherwise be expected. ...
  9. In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Squats are a dwarf-like race descended from the humans that colonised high gravity worlds. Separated from the rest of humanity over the millennia they evolved their own distinct morphology and culture. ...
  10. Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use. ...
  11. (Squatting (pastoral)) In Australian history, 'squatter' referred to those who occupied large tracts of Crown land in order to graze livestock. Initially often having no legal rights to the land, they gained its usage by being the first (and often the only) Europeans in the area.
  12. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet; : A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders; A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting (Wikipedia ...
  13. (squatting) The act or general practice of occupying a building or land illegally
  14. (Squats) A traditional exercise used in strength and resistance training to developpower and speed. Squats are performed in a position in which the body is supported on thefeet and the knees are bent so that the buttocks rest on or near the heels.
  15. (Squats) Again, enough resistance will be needed so you aren’t spinning too fast. This is more of an upright position. Hold you upper body still and your legs will be doing the work. This is a hard position to hold, so make the most of it and expect some burn!
  16. (Squats) An upper leg and hip exercise usually performed with a barbell resting on the shoulders.
  17. (Squats) This exercise is the king of the lower body exercise. This is because it works the front and back thigh, buttocks, calves, abs, and lower back muscle. To execute this exercise, you simply place a barbell behind your neck and across your shoulders. ...
  18. Squats are one of the most beneficial workouts at the gym regardless of your fitness goals. They can be done with a barbell in a squat cage, or with dumbbells at your sides. If you choose to use a barbell, prepare a weighted barbell slightly above chest height in a squat cage. ...
  19. (Squatting) Unlawful occupation of land or housing.
  20. the "king of exercises"; put a bar across your shoulders while you are in a standing position and, keeping your torso as upright as possible, squat down until the tops of your thighs are parallel to the floor or below. ...
  21. The opposite of dive, squat is the dipping of a car's rear end that occurs during hard acceleration. Squat is caused by a load transfer from the front to the rear suspension.
  22. When the rear of the motorcycle compresses due to hard acceleration. “The bike seems to have a lot of squat when it leaves turn three.”
  23. To bend the legs at the knees while lowering the body toward the floor.
  24. the tendency of a motorcraft or vessel to draw more water astern when in motion forward than when stationary or halted. Also, a thing of little or no value, as naught or nothing, rush or zilch, cipher or nullity, zip or zero. Also, the minimum amount or degree, as the least bit.
  25. (hist.) 1. occupy a tract of Crown land in order to graze cattle or sheep. 2. act as a squatter.