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1. Someone who lives in an unoccupied building or occupies land without permission
    
2. Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
   - homesteader, nester

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

Derived forms: squatters

See also: little, low, short

Type of: colonist, interloper, intruder, settler, trespasser

Encyclopedia: Squatter