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squat (verb)

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  • squat — ► VERB (squatted, squatting) 1) crouch or sit with the knees bent and the heels close to the bottom or thighs. 2) unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or area of land. ► ADJECTIVE (squatter, squattest) ▪ short or low, and disproportionately… …   English terms dictionary

  • squat´ness — squat «skwot», verb, squat|ted or squat, squat|ting, adjective, noun. –v.i. 1. to sit on the heels; crouch: »He found it difficult to squat on his heels for more than a few minutes …   Useful english dictionary

  • squat´ly — squat «skwot», verb, squat|ted or squat, squat|ting, adjective, noun. –v.i. 1. to sit on the heels; crouch: »He found it difficult to squat on his heels for more than a few minutes …   Useful english dictionary

  • squat|ter — squat|ter1 «SKWOT uhr», noun. 1. a) a person who temporarily occupies or settles on land without title or right: »Judging from the treatment of squatters on similar lands in Manitoba, there need be no fear of settling on lands within the reserves …   Useful english dictionary

  • squat — verb (squats, squatting, squatted) 1》 crouch or sit with the knees bent and the heels close to or touching the buttocks or thighs. 2》 unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or area of land. adjective (squatter, squattest) short or low, and… …   English new terms dictionary

  • squat — Verb. 1. To defecate. 2. To urinate. Female expression. Noun. 1. The act of defecation. Also, of females, urination. 2. Nothing, naught. E.g. He knew squat about football and shouldn t have been refereeing the match. Orig. U.S …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • squat — [[t]skwɒ̱t[/t]] squats, squatting, squatted 1) VERB If you squat, you lower yourself towards the ground, balancing on your feet with your legs bent. He squatted, grunting at the pain in his knees... We squatted beside the pool and watched the… …   English dictionary

  • squat — [c]/skwɒt / (say skwot) verb (squatted or squat, squatting) –verb (i) 1. to assume a posture close to the ground with the knees bent and the back more or less straight resting either on the balls of the feet, or with feet flat. 2. to crouch or… …  

  • squat — I. verb (squatted; squatting) Etymology: Middle English squatten to crush, crouch in hiding, from Middle French (Picard dialect) esquatir, escuater, from Old French es ex + quatir to hide, from Vulgar Latin *coactire to squeeze, alteration of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • squat — [13] Someone who squats is etymologically ‘forced together’ – and indeed the verb originally meant ‘squash, flatten’ in English (‘This stone shall fall on such men, and squat them all to powder’, John Wyclif, Sermons 1380). Not until the early… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • squat — [13] Someone who squats is etymologically ‘forced together’ – and indeed the verb originally meant ‘squash, flatten’ in English (‘This stone shall fall on such men, and squat them all to powder’, John Wyclif, Sermons 1380). Not until the early… …   Word origins

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