squat

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They live, eat, and sleep in one room, where dishes and clothes are washed in buckets and toilet facilities are a squat which is flushed through by pouring water from an adjacent trough or bucket.

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  1. intransitive verb To sit in a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels.
  2. intransitive verb To crouch down, as an animal does.
  3. intransitive verb To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim.

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  • We went through the former, which is large and imposing, with fine courts and some pretty views, but it is low and Teutonic—in plain English, squat—like some of the old statues in armour that one sees in the squares of the German towns. —  A Residence in France
  • As I expected it would all amount to diddly-squat, the lunatics in Pyongyang, did their thing, everyone heaved and hoed like a bunch of big girls, had a meeting, wasted a lot of money and ultimately, nothing has happened and nothing will happen to them. —  CRUSADER RABBIT
  • And taxpayer's got squat, the. 5\% off house financing (which is the estimate of the effect, iirc) was used for far too many loans which should never, ever, have been made so that Fannie and Freddie's executives could book fake profits so they could pay themselves massive bonusses. —  Firedoglake
  • If you want to do squats, the overhead barbell squat is generally regarded as a better developer of core strength than the regular barbell squat:
  • Less than squat, actually, because we find out today that —  Informed Speculation
 

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  1. Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, to crush : es-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + quatir, to press flat (from Vulgar Latin *coāctīre, from Latin coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to compress : co-, co- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English squatten, sqwatten, from Old French esquatir, press down, lay flat, crush, from es- (from Latin ex-) + quatir, quattir, press down, = Italian quattare, lie close, squat, from Latin coactare, press together, constrain, force: see quat, and cf. squash.
  2. Pp. of squat, v.
  3. from Danish sqvatte, splash, spurt: see squander, swat, swatter.
  4. from New Latin Squatina.
 

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