squat
IPA: skwˈɑt
noun
- 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.]
verb
- 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.
adjective
- Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
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Examples of "squat" in Sentences
- This is how you squat.
- He is squatting on the floor.
- The trainer told him to squat.
- The soldiers are squatting outside.
- The police told the prisoners to squat.
- They were told to squat in front of the people.
- He is known for the invention of the goblet squat.
- Get over yourself, you are not going to win squat.
- The press is sometimes analogized as the upper body squat.
- These bases squat in between the other base and the flyer.
- The athlete begins the clean by squatting down to grasp the bar.
- 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.