1.  squat(n = noun.act) knee bend, squatting - exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles;
Derived form verb squat₁

2.  squat(n = noun.quantity) diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit - a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"

3.  squat(n = noun.act) squatting - the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels;
Derived form verb squat₁

1.  squat(v = verb.contact) crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
Derived form noun squat₁, noun squat₃, noun squatting₂
Sample sentences: The children %s in the rocking chair; There %s some children in the rocking chair

2.  squat(v = verb.stative) - be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s

3.  squat(v = verb.stative) - occupy (a dwelling) illegally;
Derived form noun squatter₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

1.  squat(s = adj.all) chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy - short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"
Derived form noun squatness₁

2.  squat(s = adj.all) underslung - having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground;
Derived form noun squatness₁

   The angel fish (Squatina angelus). [1913 Webster]

1.  To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire. [1913 Webster]

2.  To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit. [1913 Webster]

3.  To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands. [1913 Webster]

   To bruise or make flat by a fall. [1913 Webster]

1.  Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. [1913 Webster]

2.  Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. R. Browning. [1913 Webster]

1.  The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground. [1913 Webster]

2.  A sudden or crushing fall. Herbert. [1913 Webster]

3.  A small vein of ore. Halliwell. Woodward. [1913 Webster]

squat, v., adj., & n.
--v. (squatted, squatting)
1 intr. a crouch with the hams resting on the backs of the heels. b sit on the ground etc. with the knees drawn up and the heels close to or touching the hams.
2 tr. put (a person) into a squatting position.
3 intr. colloq. sit down.
4 a intr. act as a squatter. b tr. occupy (a building) as a squatter.
5 intr. (of an animal) crouch close to the ground.
--adj. (squatter, squattest)
1 (of a person etc.) short and thick, dumpy.
2 in a squatting posture.
--n.
1 a squatting posture.
2 a a place occupied by a squatter or squatters. b being a squatter.

Derivative:
squatly adv. squatness n.

Etymology:
ME f. OF esquatir flatten f. es- EX-(1) + quatir press down, crouch ult. f. L coactus past part. of cogere compel: see COGENT

VB  place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.

N  littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments), little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate, in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically.

N  shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.

N  breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope.

N  lowness, debasement, depression, prostration, depression, molehill, lowlands, basement floor, ground floor, rez de chaussee, cellar, hold, bilge, feet, heels, low water, low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide, low, neap, debased, nether, nether most, flat, level with the ground, lying low, crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate, under, beneath, underneath, below, downwards, adown, at the foot of, under foot, under ground, down stairs, below stairs, at a low ebb, below par.

VB  depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg, cast, let drop, let fall, sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate, overthrow, overturn, overset, upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell, cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down, raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground, trample in the dust, pull about one's ears, sit, sit down, couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow, courtesy, curtsy, bob, duck, dip, kneel, bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head, cower, recline.