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squat
has definitions from the field of housing
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[ verb ] sit on one's heels
Synonyms Examples "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting" "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on , we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive : safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by . (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)So you sit in the car and listen to the air run_out and listen to the rain and see the mud in_front_of the headlights , waiting for you , for your new spectator_pumps , waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt , crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off , because that is being an old_maid too , if you happen to drive a car , it is changing the tire yourself in the night , and in the mud and the rain , hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
Examples "some people seem born to be square and chunky" "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman" "a little church with a squat tower" "a squatty red smokestack" "a stumpy ungainly figure" Used in print (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)There was the squat loose_jowled man , smiling lopsidedly up at him . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Cause of all this commotion : squat , pug-nosed , balding , hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre_Bravado , a Bogartian figure , who plays a sadistic , amoral , philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico_de_Mille_Rossilini 's endlessly provocative film , A_Sour_Sponge . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide
Examples "The building squatted low" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It squatted low and square upon the sidewalk with a heavy iron grating supporting a glass facade . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
Synonyms Used in print (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear . Related terms |
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[ noun ] exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position; strengthens the leg muscles
Used in print (Mr. America, 4:6...)It improves over-all balance and control for the bodybuilder , and helps to make Squats more easily and more correctly performed . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a small worthless amount
Examples "you don't know jack" Related terms |
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