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1. Sit on one's heels
   "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"
   - crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down
    
2. Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
   "The building squatted low"
    
3. Occupy (a dwelling) illegally

1. Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
   "a little church with a squat tower"
   - chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy
    
2. Having a low centre of gravity; built low to the ground
   - underslung

1. Exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
   - knee bend, squatting
    
2. A small worthless amount
   "you don't know doodly-squat"; "you don't know diddly-squat"; "you don't know squat"
   - jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly, diddley
    
3. The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
   - squatting
    
4. A building occupied without permission; the act of squatting in a building

Derived forms: squatting, squats, squatted, squatter, squattest

See also: little, low, short, squatness, squatter

Type of: be, leg exercise, lodge in, motility, motion, move, movement, occupy, reside, sit, sit down, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity

Encyclopedia: Squat