Squat

Adjective

 * 1) Relatively short or low and thick or broad
 * 2) * 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
 * On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges

Noun



 * 1) A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
 * 2) * 2006, Yael Calhoun & Matthew R. Calhoun, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids, page 72
 * Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
 * : A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.
 * 1) * 2001, Robert Wolff, Robert Wolff's Book of Great Workouts, page 58-59
 * The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat.
 * 1) A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting (Wikipedia entry).
 * 2) A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
 * 3) * 1996, Chris Smith, "Live Free or Die", New York Magazine‎ (8 Jul 2009), page 36
 * "If you want to spend a night in a squat, it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' "My house is your house" rhetoric has become hollow.
 * 1)  Something of no value; nothing.
 * I know squat about nuclear physics.
 * 1) * 2003, "Dear Dotti", Weekly World News‎, vol. 24, no. 34 (May 6), page 23
 * We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat.

Derived terms

 * breathing squat
 * front squat
 * hack squat
 * sissy squat

Verb

 * 1) To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
 * 2) * 1901, Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, chapter II
 * He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
 * 1)  To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
 * 2) * 1994, Kurt, Mike, & Brett Brungardt, The Complete Book of Butt and Legs, page 161
 * For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting we suggest learning how to squat by performing the front squatThe front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.
 * 1) To occupy without permission.
 * 2) * 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, chapter VII
 * Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.

Derived terms

 * squatter
 * squatting

Thesaurus
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abide, adipose, anchor, be enfeoffed of, be possessed of, be seated, be seized of, beefy, bend, berth, big-bellied, billet at, bivouac, bloated, blocky, blowzy, boast, bob, bosomy, bow, brawny, bunk, burly, burrow, buxom, camp, chubby, chunky, claim, cohabit, colonize, come to anchor, command, corpulent, couch, couchant, cower, crawl, cringe, crouch, crouched, curtsy, debased, depressed, distended, domesticate, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, drop anchor, duck, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, dwell, elfin, enjoy, ensconce, establish residence, fat, fattish, fill, flat, fleshy, full, genuflection, get down, gross, grovel, hang out, have, have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hive, hold, hug the earth, hunch, hunch down, hunker down, imposing, incipient, inhabit, keep house, knee-high, kneeling, knocked flat, kowtow, laid low, lie low, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie under, live, live at, locate, lodge, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lusty, meager, meaty, midget, moor, move, nanoid, neap, nest, nod, obeisance, obese, occupy, overweight, park, paunchy, people, perch, plump, podgy, populate, portly, possess, potbellied, prone, prostration, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, pygmy, recumbent, relocate, remain, reside, retrousse, reverence, roly-poly, room, roost, rotund, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, salaam, scraggy, scrouch down, scrubby, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, short, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, sit down, snub-nosed, square, squat on, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stand, stay, stay at, stocky, stoop, stooped, stout, strapping, strike root, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stunted, supination, supine, swat, swollen, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tenant, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, underlie, undersize, undersized, unelevated, usucapt, wallow, well-fed, welter, wizened

Etymology
From squatten:, from  esquatir:, from  coactus:, perfect passive participle of cogo:.

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * French: trapu
 * Russian: приземистый, коренастый


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: låg

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Portuguese: agachamento, cócoras
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: Kniebeuge
 * Portuguese: agachamento


 * Spanish: cuclilla, sentadilla
 * Swedish: knäböj


 * Finnish: kyykkykäymälä


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: besetztes Haus


 * Italian: edificio occupato, casa occupata
 * Japanese: 不法占拠（ふほうせんきょ, huhou senkyo）
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: edificio ocupado, okupa
 * Swedish: ockuperad byggnad

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蹲, 蹲下
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sidde på hug
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Japanese: しゃがむ, 蹲る
 * Russian: приседать, присесть , садиться на корточки , сесть на корточки
 * Swedish: sitta på huk


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian: occupare, occupare abusivamente
 * Japanese: 不法占拠する（ふほうせんきょする, huhōsenkyo-suru）
 * Spanish: ocupar, okupar
 * Swedish: ockupera

Anagrams

 * quats

Noun

 * 1) squat, building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter
 * taper un squat, to squat an apartment, do stupid and useless things.
 * 1) uninvited presence in a building or place (the result of which can be welcomed)
 * on va taper un squat chez Jérôme ?
 * let's crash Jérôme's place
 * 1) squat effect
 * Parmi les inconvénients du squat, la modification de l'écoulement des filets d'eau, perturbé par la proximité du fond, provoque des difficultés de gouverne, des vibrations, et une diminution de la vitesse.
 * C'est Vlad Alhazov qui détient le record du monde au squat, avec 1250lbs (566,99 kilo).
 * C'est Vlad Alhazov qui détient le record du monde au squat, avec 1250lbs (566,99 kilo).

Etymology
From squat: