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# squat

«squat» in Mova's school dictionary: **to bend your knees and lower your body so you sit on your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (squat, squats, squatted, squatting); noun (a squat, squats); adjective (squat, squatter, squattest); (slang, US) squat = nothing

### meaning for a pupil

1) To squat is to bend your knees and lower your body so you sit on your heels or just above the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#m1)

2) A squat is an exercise where you bend your knees and stand up again, keeping your back straight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#m2)

3) To squat is to live in an empty building or on land without permission or paying rent; the building is then called a squat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#m3)

4) Squat (adjective) means short and wide: a squat little teapot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#m4)

5) (US slang) Squat or «diddly-squat» means nothing at all: «you know squat». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

PE and health: squats make leg muscles strong; keep your knees over your toes. Everyday life: squatting down to look at a bug. Law and news: squatting in empty buildings is a crime in some places, like homes in England. Stories: a squat house or a squat toad is short and fat.

### examples

- We did twenty squats in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x1)
- She squatted down to look at the snail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x2)
- The toad was squat and brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x3)
- People were squatting in the empty building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x4)
- Keep your back straight when you squat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x5)
- He knows squat about football. (US slang) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x6)
- The old lighthouse looked squat next to the hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x7)
- Matting was spread for him to squat on, and the best provisions set before him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/#x8)

### note

Spelling: squatted, squatting (double t). A person who squats in a building is a «squatter». The slang sense «squat» = nothing is informal, mostly American.

### In the corpora

- [Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «squat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/squat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.