The Wordsmith Dictionary

Squat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squatting.]Etym: [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering ), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. cogere to drive or urge together. See Cogent, Squash, v. t.]

1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

3. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

SQUAT

SQUAT Squat, v. t.

Defn: To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs. ]

SQUAT

SQUAT Squat, a.

1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. Milton.

2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret. " R. Browning. The head [of the squill insect ] is broad and squat. Grew.

SQUAT

SQUAT Squat, n.

1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Obs. ] erbert.

3. (Mining ) (a ) A small vein of ore. (b ) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. Halliwell. Woodward. Squat snipe (Zoöl.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.]

SQUATEROLE

SQUATEROLE Squat "er *ole, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The black-bellied plover.

SQUATTER

SQUATTER Squat "ter, n.

1. One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown. Macaulay.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: See Squat snipe, under Squat. Squatter sovereignty, the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

SQUATTY

SQUATTY Squat "ty, a.

Defn: Squat; dumpy. J. Burroughs.

New American Oxford Dictionary

squat

squat |skwät skwɑt | ▶verb ( squats, squatting, squatted ) 1 [ no obj. ] 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 obj. ] Weightlifting crouch down in such a way and rise again while holding (a specified weight ) at one's shoulders: he can squat 850 pounds. 2 [ no obj. ] unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land: eight families are squatting in the house. • [ with obj. ] occupy (an uninhabited building ) in such a way. ▶adjective ( squatter , squattest ) short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide: he was muscular and squat | a squat gray house. ▶noun 1 [ in sing. ] 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. 2 informal short for diddly-squat: I didn't know squat about writing plays. 3 chiefly Brit. a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so. • an unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building. DERIVATIVES squat ly adverb, squat ness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force ’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten, ’ based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel ’ (see cogent ). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.

squatt

squatt |skwɒt | ▶noun the larva of the common housefly, used by anglers as bait. ORIGIN 1930s: perhaps from the adjective squat .

squatter

squat ter |ˈskwätər ˈskwɑdər | ▶noun a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. • historical a settler with no legal title to the land occupied, typically one on land not yet allocated by a government.

squat thrust

squat thrust |skwɑt θrəst | ▶noun an exercise in which the legs are thrust backward to their full extent from a squatting position with the hands on the floor.

Oxford Dictionary

squat

squat |skwɒt | ▶verb ( squats, squatting, squatted ) 1 [ no obj. ] 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 obj. ] Weightlifting crouch down in such a way and rise again while holding (a specified weight ) across one's shoulders: he can squat 850 pounds. 2 [ no obj. ] unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land: eight families are squatting in the house. • [ with obj. ] unlawfully occupy (an uninhabited building ). ▶adjective ( squatter, squattest ) short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide: he was muscular and squat | a squat grey house. ▶noun 1 [ in sing. ] a squatting position. • Weightlifting an exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across one's shoulders. • (in gymnastics ) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action. 2 a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so. • an unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building. 3 N. Amer. informal short for diddly-squat. DERIVATIVES squatly adverb, squatness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force ’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten ’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel ’ (see cogent ). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th cent.

squatt

squatt |skwɒt | ▶noun the larva of the common housefly, used by anglers as bait. ORIGIN 1930s: perhaps from the adjective squat .

squatter

squat |ter |ˈskwɒtə | ▶noun 1 a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land. • N. Amer. & Austral. /NZ historical a settler with no legal title to the land occupied, typically one on land not yet allocated by a government. 2 Austral. /NZ a large-scale sheep or cattle farmer. • historical a person occupying a tract of pastoral land as a tenant of the Crown.

squatter camp

squat |ter camp ▶noun S. African another term for shackland.

squat thrust

squat thrust ▶noun an exercise in which the legs are thrust backwards to their full extent from a squatting position with the hands on the floor.

American Oxford Thesaurus

squat

squat verb 1 I was squatting on the floor: crouch (down ), hunker (down ), sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels. 2 they are squatting on private land: occupy illegally, set up residence, dwell, settle, live. ▶adjective he was muscular and squat: stocky, thickset, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, small; informal, humorous vertically challenged. ▶noun informal they gave me squat. See nothing (sense 1 ).

Oxford Thesaurus

squat

squat verb I let my back slide down the pillar until I was squatting on the floor: crouch (down ), hunker (down ), sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch, cower, cringe; N. Amer. informal scooch. ▶adjective 1 he was muscular and squat: stocky, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, chunky, solid; burly, beefy; cobby; technical mesomorphic, pyknic; Austral. /NZ nuggety; Brit. informal fubsy. 2 a two-storey classical building with a squat tower: low, stumpy, short, small, stocky, stunted.

Duden Dictionary

Squatter

Squat ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |ˈskvɔtɐ englisch ˈskwɔtə |lateinisch-vulgärlateinisch -französisch -englisch (besonders früher in den USA ) Siedler, der ohne Rechtsanspruch auf unbebautem Land siedelt

Squatterin

Squat te rin Substantiv, feminin , die weibliche Form zu Squatter

French Dictionary

squatter

squatter n. m. (pl. squatters ) nom masculin Personne sans abri qui s ’installe dans un logement inoccupé. Prononciation Le u se prononce ou et le r est sonore, [skwatɛr ]; le nom rime avec terre

Spanish Dictionary

squatter

squatter nombre masculino Persona que se instala en una vivienda o local deshabitado, sin tener derecho a ello según la legalidad vigente .SINÓNIMO okupa .Se pronuncia aproximadamente 'escuáter '. El plural es squatters .

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

squat

squat /skwɑt |skwɔt /動詞～s /-ts /; ～ted /-ɪd /; ～ting 自動詞 1 «…に » しゃがむ , うずくまる , しゃがみこむ (down ) «on » ▸ He squatted down on the ground .彼は地面にしゃがみこんだ 2 【他人の建物土地などに】無断で住みつく , 不法に居座る «in , on » .3 ｟英くだけて｠(ぺたりと )座る .4 〈動物などが〉身をひそめる , 地に伏せる .5 ｟米卑｠くそをする .他動詞〖～ oneself 〗しゃがむ .形容詞 1 しゃがんだ .2 〈人物などが〉ずんぐりした .名詞 C 1 しゃがむこと ; 〖単数形で〗しゃがんだ姿勢 [状態 ].2 ｟英くだけて｠不法に占拠された建物 , 無断で人に住みつかれた空き家 .squ á t ness 名詞

squatter

squ á t ter 名詞 C 1 無断居住者, 不法定住者 .2 不法占有者 [占拠者 ].