Found 3 items, similar to squat.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: squat bercangkung, bercengkung, bercokol, berjongkok, cangkung, cokol, dodok, jongkok, nongkrong
English → English (WordNet) Definition: squat squat 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: 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 [also: squatting, squatted, squattest, squatter] squat n 1: exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position; strengthens the leg muscles [syn: knee bend, squatting] 2: a small worthless amount; “you don't know jack” [syn: jack, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, shit] 3: the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position [syn: squatting] [also: squatting, squatted, squattest, squatter] 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, squatty, stumpy] 2: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground [syn: underslung] [also: squatting, squatted, squattest, squatter]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Squat Squat \Squat\ (skw[o^]t), n. (Zo["o]l.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus). [1913 Webster] Squat \Squat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squatting.] [OE. squatten to crush, OF. esquater, esquatir (cf. It. quatto squat, cowering), perhaps fr. L. ex + coactus, p. p. of cogere to drive or urge together. See Cogent, Squash, v. t.] 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] Squat \Squat\, v. t. To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Squat \Squat\, a. 1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching. [1913 Webster] Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. “The round, squat turret.” --R. Browning. [1913 Webster] The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat. --Grew. [1913 Webster] Squat \Squat\, n. 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. [Obs.] --Herbert. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mining) (a) A small vein of ore. (b) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. --Halliwell. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] Squat snipe (Zo["o]l.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.] [1913 Webster]