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Meaning of squat

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  squat
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {chunky},
             {dumpy}, {low-set}, {squat}, {squatty}, {stumpy}]
      2: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground [syn:
         {squat}, {underslung}]
      n 1: exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with
           the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles [syn: {knee
           bend}, {squat}, {squatting}]
      2: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: {jack},
         {doodly-squat}, {diddly-squat}, {diddlysquat}, {diddly-shit},
         {diddlyshit}, {diddly}, {diddley}, {squat}, {shit}]
      3: the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with
         the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels [syn: {squat},
         {squatting}]
      v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
           while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
           themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: {squat}, {crouch},
           {scrunch}, {scrunch up}, {hunker}, {hunker down}]
      2: be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The
         building squatted low"
      3: occupy (a dwelling) illegally

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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