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squat in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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 ungainly figure"
    chunky  dumpy  low-set  squat  squatty  stumpy 
  2. having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
    squat  underslung 
verb
  1. sit on one's heels
    "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
    squat  crouch  scrunch  scrunch up  hunker  hunker down 
  2. occupy (a dwelling) illegally
    squat 
  3. be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
    "The building squatted low"
    squat 
noun
  1. a small worthless amount
    "you don't know jack"
    jack  doodly-squat  diddly-squat  diddlysquat  diddly-shit  diddlyshit  diddly  diddley  squat  shit 
  2. exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
    knee bend  squat  squatting 
  3. the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
    squat  squatting 
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