squat

Meanings

• exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
• a small worthless amount
• the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
• sit on one's heels
  • "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"
• be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
  • "The building squatted low"
• occupy (a dwelling) illegally
• short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
  • "a little church with a squat tower"
  • "a squatty red smokestack"
• having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground

Synonyms

chunky, crouch, diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, dumpy, hunker, hunker down, jack, knee bend, low-set, scrunch, scrunch up, shit, squatting, squatty, stumpy, underslung