squat

verb (squats, squatting, squatted)

• 1 [no object] crouch or sit with one’s knees bent and one’s heels close to or touching one’s buttocks or the back of one’s thighs:I squatted down in front of him
• [with object] Weightlifting crouch down in a squat and rise again while holding (a specified weight) at one’s shoulders:he can squat 850 pounds

• 2 [no object] unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land:eight families are squatting in the house
• [with object] occupy (an uninhabited building) unlawfully.

adjective (squatter, squattest)

• short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide:he was muscular and squat a squat gray house

noun

• 1 [in singular] a position in which one’s knees are bent and one’s heels are close to or touching one’s buttocks or the back of one’s thighs.
• Weightlifting an exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell at shoulder level.
• (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action.

• 2North American informalshort for diddly-squat.I didn’t know squat about writing plays

• 3chiefly British a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so.
• an unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building.