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US
/ˈskwɑt/
]
[ UK /skwˈɒt/ ]
[ UK /skwˈɒt/ ]
VERB
-
be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
The building squatted low -
sit on one's heels
The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting - occupy (a dwelling) illegally
NOUN
- exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
- the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
-
a small worthless amount
you don't know jack
ADJECTIVE
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short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
some people seem born to be square and chunky
a little church with a squat tower
a stumpy ungainly figure
a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
a squatty red smokestack
dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears - having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
How To Use squat In A Sentence
- And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
- Squatting down, Trent poured rum and squeezed orange juice into the cups.
- The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented.
- Interrupted by just the squat Marble Mountains, we sit insignificantly at the hub of a huge disc of sand curving to every horizon, beneath a dome of stars and the ghostly light of a thin crescent moon.
- But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
- The hard labor of the farm was mostly done by them, and on the floor of the big kitchen, toward sundown, would be squatting a circle of twelve or fourteen "pickaninnies," eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
- Xuanrang the streets, for you to squat in the tight loose shoelace.
- Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
- And she fitted well into the homely scene: short and somewhat "squatty" of form, red-haired, freckle-faced and pug-nosed. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
- You can just see the mental process by which they work out how many squat thrusts it will take to work off each pillow of dough. Times, Sunday Times