squat

IPA: skwˈɑt

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
(exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
(weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
(mining) A small vein of ore.
A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
The angel shark (genus Squatina).
(slang, Canada, US) Clipping of diddly-squat; something of no value. [(US slang, often humorous) Nothing; nothing whatsoever.]

To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
(exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
(weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
(Internet) To cybersquat.

Examples of "squat" in Sentences

Get over yourself, you are not going to win squat.
The only piece of so-called furniture left in the squat was a wooden crate.
To assume he’s going to have the votes to do squat is a huge leap into a dunghole.
BUT have I heard squat from the publishers saying the antho's dead, and good luck submitting the story elsewhere?
PIEDRA: One of the best exercises that you can do to get your body bathing suit ready is called the squat thrust.
So it's unlikely we'll hear squat from the Cheneys now that their most loyal supporters are using gay people like Mary to gay-bait John Kerry.
Ha, I don't want to hear squat from the DUMOCRATS who like the crooked Clinton Family, the Idiot Pelosi, the Scmuck Obama, and the flaming Barney Frank.
The hope was to revive the city's 19th-century fabric, but the result has been block after block of plain squat structures, many desi gned, much to their chagrin, by the world's greatest architects. illustration by Jean-Manuel Duvivier After taking in the model, I went upstairs to have a chat with his successor, a Swiss architect named Regula L ü scher, who had been Z ü rich's city planner before she came here.