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Adjective squat has 2 senses
- chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy - 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"
Antonym: tall (indirect, via short)
- squat, underslung - having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
Antonym: high (indirect, via low)
Noun squat has 3 senses
- knee bend, squat, squatting - exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position; strengthens the leg muscles
--1 is a kind of leg exercise
- jack, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit - a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
--2 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- squat, squatting - the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position
--3 is a kind of motion, movement, move, motility
Verb squat has 3 senses
- squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
--1 is one way to sit, sit down
Sample sentences:
The children squat in the rocking chair
There squat some children in the rocking chair
- squat - be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- squat - occupy (a dwelling) illegally
--3 is one way to occupy, reside, lodge in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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