SQUAT
\skwˈɒt], \skwˈɒt], \s_k_w_ˈɒ_t]\
Definitions of SQUAT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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 dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
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occupy (a dwelling) illegally
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sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
By Princeton University
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The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
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To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
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To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
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To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
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To bruise or make flat by a fall.
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Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
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Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
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The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
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A sudden or crushing fall.
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A small vein of ore.
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A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
By Oddity Software
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To sit down on the heels, or with the knees drawn up; to settle on land with a view to gaining title to it.
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Sitting on the heels, or with the knees drawn up; crouching; short and thick.
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The position of one who squats.
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Squatted.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To sit down upon the hams or heels: to cower, as an animal: to settle on new land without title:-pr.p. squatting; pa.t. and pa.p. squatted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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