squat meaning
EN
[skwɒt] [skwɑt] [-ɒt] 
US WSquat
- The word squat, squatter or squatting can refer to:
FR squat 
- NounPLsquats
- A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- (weightlifting): A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.
- A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
- A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
- (slang) Something of no value; nothing.
- I know squat about nuclear physics.
- (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
- (mining) A small vein of ore.
- A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
- The angel shark (genus Squatina).
- A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- VerbSGsquatsPRsquattingPT, PPsquatted
- To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
- To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
- To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
- (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
- To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- AdjectiveCOMsquatterSUPsquattest
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There is a squat and fuss-free simplicity about its profile, which belies the amount of 'whoop-ass' that can be delivered with a prod of the accelerator pedal.
- Wavy panels made of steel trelliswork hang from the entry’s ceiling; big squat columns frame views to a small public garden outside.
- A hot lion with a very bloated stomach ... will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Squat and gnome-like it looked, silhouetted against the dying fire in the western sky; an odd, elfin-eared, pink-handed, hunchbacked manikin with a tail.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of squat in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "squat" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.