squat
To bend your knees and move your body down near the ground, with your feet flat.
To bend your legs and lower your body so that you are close to the ground, usually with your feet flat.
An exercise where you bend your knees and move your body down and up to make your legs strong.
A strength exercise in which you repeatedly bend your knees to lower your body and then return to standing, usually to train the legs and hips.
To stay and live in a house or other place when you do not have the right or permission to be there.
To live in or use a building or piece of land without permission from the owner, especially as a form of protest or because you have nowhere else to live.
A house or other building where people live, even though they do not have permission from the owner.
A building where people live or stay without the legal right or permission of the owner.
Used in negative sentences to mean nothing at all, often when you are angry or want to speak strongly.
Used in negative statements to mean nothing at all, no amount, or no knowledge, often to express annoyance or emphasis.
Short and wide in shape, not tall or thin, often looking heavy and strong.
Short and wide in a way that makes something look solid, thick, or heavy, especially a building or a person’s body.
A body position where you bend your knees and move your body down near the ground, with your feet flat.
A body position in which you are bent down with your knees deeply flexed and your body lowered close to the ground, usually with your feet flat.
- Base: squat
- Base: squat
- Plural: squats
- Base: squat
- 3rd Person Singular: squats
- Present Participle: squatting
- Past: squatted
- Past Participle: squatted
- Irregular present participle: squatting Verb
- Irregular past: squatted Verb
- Irregular past participle: squatted Verb
air squat
1bodyweight-only squat exercise
A squat exercise that you do with just your body, without any weights.
- We warmed up with twenty air squats before lifting.
- If your knees hurt, start with slow air squats.
deep squat
1very low squat position
A squat where you go very low, so your hips are lower than your knees.
- The coach asked us to do a deep squat and hold it for five seconds.
- Many people find it hard to keep their balance in a deep squat.
do squats
1perform squat exercises
To do the squat exercise one or many times.
- I do squats and lunges every morning before work.
- They did squats until their legs were shaking.
doesn't mean squat
1have no value or importance
To not be important or valuable at all.
- Your title doesn't mean squat if you can't do the job.
- To me, those awards don't mean squat.
don't do squat
1do almost nothing (slang)
To do nothing, or almost nothing, when you should or could do something.
- They complain all day but don't do squat to change things.
- The new system doesn't do squat to make our work easier.
don't know squat
1know absolutely nothing (slang)
To know nothing at all about something, said in a strong, slang way.
- I don't know squat about fixing computers.
- They act confident, but they don't know squat about marketing.
short and squat
1short and broad in appearance
Short and wide in shape, not tall or thin.
- A short and squat tower stood by the river.
- The dog was short and squat but very fast.
squat down
1lower your body by bending knees
To bend your knees and move your body down near the ground.
- She squatted down to speak to the child at eye level.
- Please squat down and check if the pipe is leaking.
squat on
1keep control of something unused
To keep something, especially land, a name, or information, without really using it or sharing it.
- The company has been squatting on that web address for years.
- He squatted on the empty land, hoping its value would rise.
squat rack
1gym frame for barbell squats
A strong metal stand in a gym that holds the bar for heavy squats.
- He waited for someone to finish using the squat rack.
- Please put the weights back on the squat rack when you're done.
squat thrust
1dynamic squat–push-up exercise
An exercise where you start in a squat, jump your feet back into a push-up position, then jump them forward and return to a squat.
- The instructor made us do fifty squat thrusts in a row.
- Squat thrusts are a classic exercise used in military training.
squat toilet
1toilet used while squatting
A kind of toilet that you use while you squat, not sit.
- Many public restrooms in that country have squat toilets.
- She had never used a squat toilet before traveling to Asia.