Found 2 items, similar to Squatter.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: squatter 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] squatter n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: homesteader, nester] 2: someone who settles on land without right or title 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] squatter See squat
English → English (gcide) Definition: Squatter Squatter \Squat"ter\ (-t[~e]r), n. 1. One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under legal permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. [1913 Webster] In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) See Squat snipe, under Squat. [1913 Webster] Squatter sovereignty, the right claimed by the squatters, or actual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]