squatverb
uk/skwɒt/us/skwɑːt/-tt-squat verb (SIT)
[ I ] to position yourself close to the ground balancing on the front part of your feet with your legs bent under your body:
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Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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squat verb (LIVE)
[ I or T ] to live in an empty building or area of land without the permission of the owner:
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Living or sleeping somewhere
- abide
- domiciled
- dwell
- exist
- habitable
- inhospitable
- live in
- live in sin idiom
- live out
- live-in
- lodge
- residence
- residency
- resident
- residential
- room
- root
- settle
- settle down
- stay
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squatadjective
uk/skwɒt/us/skwɑːt/squatter, squattestshort and wide, usually in a way that is not attractive:
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Low, short and shallow
- (as) long as your arm idiom
- brief
- knee-high
- long
- longish
- low
- low slung
- shallow
- short
- short
- short-range
- shortish
- shorty
- shrimp
- stumpy
- stunted
- sunken
- titch
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squatnoun
uk/skwɒt/us/skwɑːt/squat noun (SITTING)
[ C ] a squatting position
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Sitting and standing
- akimbo
- astride
- attention
- bestride
- cross-legged
- crouch
- four
- pew
- plop
- plump (sb/sth) down
- rampant
- seated
- seating
- sit sth out
- stand
- stand round
- strike
- take a pew! idiom
- take the weight off your feet/legs idiom
- weight
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squat noun (EXERCISE)
an exercise in which you stand on the ground with your feet apart and raise and lower your bottom by bending and straightening your legs
squat noun (PLACE TO LIVE)
[ C ] the place that you live in when you are squatting:
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Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flatlet
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- prefab
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
- yurt
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squat noun (ANYTHING)
[ U ] US slang anything:
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Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- anything
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- fresh
- nil
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- sweet
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zero
- zilch
- zip
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