squat

nouns

exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles

knee bend, squat, squatting

a small worthless amount

"you don't know jack"

diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat

the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels

squat, squatting

verbs

sit on one's heels

"In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat

is derived from

squatting

be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide

"The building squatted low"

squat

is a type of (narrower)

have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

"John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

occupy (a dwelling) illegally

squat

is derived from

squatter

is a type of (narrower)

live (in a certain place)

"She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"

lodge in, occupy, reside

adjectives

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"

chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy

is derived from

squatness

having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground

squat, underslung

is derived from

squatness