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Vinony

squat

noun

  1. workout that targets the legs
  2. sitting position
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verb

  1. workout that targets the legs
  2. live on a property owned but unused by another
  3. to assume or maintain a position in which the body is supported on the feet and the knees are bent so that the buttocks rest on or near the heels
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adjective

  1. short, almost squashed in appearance
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /skwɒt/ / /skwɑt/ / /skwɔt/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Old French es- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin co- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin cōgō Latin coāctusder. Old French quatir Old French esquatirder. Middle English squatten English squat From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”). The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.

  1. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.

    “The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.”

    “What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]”

  2. Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

    “[H]im there they found, / Squat like a toad, cloſe at the ear of Eve, / Aſſaying by his deviliſh art to reach / The organs of her fancy', and with them forge / Illuſions as he liſt, phantaſms and dreams, […]”

noun

Etymology: From Latin squatina.

  1. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Old French es- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin co- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin cōgō Latin coāctusder. Old French quatir Old French esquatirder. Middle English squatten English squat From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”). The sense “nothing” is synchronically analyzable as a clipping of diddly-squat, although diachronically the direction of derivation is uncertain.

  1. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

    “He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.”

  2. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
  3. To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.

    “For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting we suggest learning how to squat by performing the front squat […] The front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.”

  4. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.

    “Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.”

  5. To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.

    “"But there seemed to be little satisfaction got out of this run; every moment the hare squatted, and the hounds lost the scent time after time."”

  6. To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
  7. To cybersquat.

    “The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.”

  8. To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.

    “I can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!”