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1 [V] ~ (down) to sit on your heels with your knees bent up close to your body:
Children were squatting on the floor. * When we saw them we squatted down behind a wall.
2 to live in a building or on land which is not yours, without the owner's permission:
[V] They ended up squatting in the empty houses on Oxford Road. [also VN]
Part of speech: noun
1 a building that people are living in without permission and without paying rent:
to live in a squat
2 a squatting position of the body
adjective short and wide or fat, in a way that is not attractive:
a squat tower * a squat muscular man with a shaven head
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for squat is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is squat a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, squat is tagged as verb.
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