Definition: the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
Main entry: knee bend, squat, squatting
Definition: exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
Main entry: doodly-squat, diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, jack, shit, squat
Definition: a small worthless amount
Usage: you don't know jack
Main entry: crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, squat, hunker, hunker down
Definition: sit on one's heels
Usage: In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting; The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
Main entry: squat
Definition: occupy (a dwelling) illegally
Main entry: squat
Definition: be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
Usage: The building squatted low
Main entry: squat, underslung
Definition: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
Main entry: low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, dumpy, chunky
Definition: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Usage: 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