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1. Sit on one's heels
   "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting";
   - hunker, hunker down, scrooch [US, informal]
    
2. Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
   "The building squatted low"
    
3. Occupy (a dwelling) illegally
    
4. To perform the squat weightlifting exercise

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. The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
   - squatting, scrooch [US, informal]
    
3. A building occupied without permission; the act of squatting in a building
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] Anything at all
   "you don't know doodly-squat";
   - jack [N. Amer, informal], doodly-squat [informal], diddly-squat [informal], diddlysquat [informal], diddly [N. Amer, informal], diddley [N. Amer, informal]

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

See also: little, low, short

Type of: be, crouch, crouch down, leg exercise, lodge in, motility, motion, move, movement, occupy, press, reside, scooch, sit, sit down, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity, weightlift, weight-lift

Encyclopedia: Squat