Definition of squat in English:

squat

verbsquats, squatted, squatting skwɒtskwɑt

1no object Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.
蹲；蹲坐
I squatted down in front of him
我蹲在他的前面。
Example sentencesExamples
- I squat on my heels, one hand on the wire door.
- Turning around to face the child, he squatted down to her level.
- He squatted outside Kakau's room, watching him sleep.
- After 35 years of plumbing and heating work, I was having trouble bending my knees and squatting under sinks.
- His friends were shopping inside and he was tired, so he squatted on the ground.
- Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling.
- She was squatting by the fire wrapped in scarlet cloth, her shoulders draped in a soiled blanket.
- He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye.
- Daren sat beside her, shivering, and Martin squatted in front of her.
- The older boy squatted down on his heels and waited.
- Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her.
- I squatted down beside him and offered him water.
- Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel.
- Juana finishes cooking his breakfast and he squats by the fire to eat it.
- ‘Well, lets go,’ I said turning around and squatting a little so she could hop on my back.
- This medical malaise incidentally is most suffered by wicket-keepers who have to squat hundreds of times a day during a match.
- Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him.
- I looked out the window and saw a furry brown monkey squatting on the roof of a nearby building.
- He squatted down so he could lift her up into his arms.
- She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass.
Synonyms
crouch (down), hunker (down), sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch, cower, cringe
North American informal scooch
1. 1.1Weightlifting with object Crouch down with one's knees bent and rise again while holding (a specified weight) across one's shoulders.
  〔举重〕蹲举
  he can squat 850 pounds
  他可以蹲举850磅。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you can usually squat 400 pounds, don't expect to move more than 300 during this routine.
  However, I was up to 165 lb on the squats, so that's pretty awesome.
  Be certain to warm up before doing squats, deadlifts and military presses.
  You just squatted your heaviest-ever weight.
  I can now squat more than 400 pounds.
  Below are the equations you can use to predict how much weight you can squat for 10 reps.
  "To start, I could hardly squat 25 pounds, " admits Mary.
2no object Unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land.
非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地）
eight families are squatting in the house
有八户人家擅自占用了这座房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- The agency has also agreed to rehabilitate ruined public buildings where nearly 800 families are squatting.
- Five miles north, Nokuthula Dube, 22, her two daughters and two orphaned relatives are squatting in an unfinished two-room house of cinder blocks.
- Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting.
- Trish and Peter have been living in London for a few years where Trish runs a school and Pete heads up a team of blokes nailing up buildings to stop no hopers squatting.
- We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in.
- In the 1990s, it helped slum residents in Bombay to claim the land they were squatting on and turn it into a proper residential estate with running water and electricity.
- However, many return, and many illegal immigrants, both children and adults, are squatting in neglected or unfinished buildings in and around the city.
- However, bands were increasingly occupying his time when he moved back to squat in west London.
- She said she told the council her reasons for moving and swapped with the person who was living in the house in which she is now squatting.
- Mrs Kapijimpanga, however, cautioned the residents against squatting on land that has been unlawfully acquired.
- As the military dictatorship began to lose power in 1981, families squatted on land in Solano and built barrios.
- Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition.
- The group's main political activity was squatting in unoccupied houses, which they subsequently defended in street battles with police.
- We have written a major proposal to rehabilitate the house in which we are illegally squatting.
- A member of York's alternative community, she was staying in the Bootham house after squatting at the White Swan Hotel in Piccadilly.
- Judging by the burnt blankets that the firemen have left beside the building, someone was squatting in there.
- So Kerry and Michael took the only option left to them - squatting in an empty house.
- I bloody well hope that he knows these people are squatting on his land.
- Studio Sputnik started off when we squatted in an old attic of a building while we were still students.
- Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner.
1. 2.1with object Unlawfully occupy (an uninhabited building)
  非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地）
  Clare, Briony, and the others had squatted the old council house
  Example sentencesExamples
  I just spent the weekend in a terribly cute little shack which has been squatted by kids in Sydney.
  The trauma of resisting developers had seen him end up in a geriatric hospital and his friends had quickly moved in to squat the house.
  Prior to the Oct. 26 march, OCAP released a statement giving notice of the buildings they intended to squat.
  When searching for a building to squat, OCAP looks for property that will serve politically as well as functionally.
  I'd like to give big thanks and love to Mike for allowing us to squat his luxury pad for the week.
  But the group made its biggest splash by breaking into an empty shop and squatting it as a ‘social centre’.
  The house next door has been squatted by a nice bunch of young punks with seemingly endless supplies of dope.
  The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented.
2. 2.2Australian, NZ historical no object Occupy a tract of Crown land in order to graze cattle or sheep.
  many people moved further out and squatted on the land
  Example sentencesExamples
  Those who had eked out a marginal existence by squatting on the commons were evicted.
  John McMillan, who is believed to have named the creek in the area Scotchmans Creek, squatted and grazed cattle.
  The great expanse of unoccupied land available for squatting throughout southeastern Australia implied that the sheep could be left to wander.
  In the bush the first owner-builders also operated outside the law as they squatted on Crown land.
  The 1841 census shows the Connors family squatting at Queuck.

adjectivesquatter, squattest skwɒtskwɑt

Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.
矮胖的；矮而宽的
he was muscular and squat
他肌肉发达，矮而壮实。
a squat grey house
一座矮而宽的灰色房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a low, squat building, with turf for walls and a thatched roof that sloped nearly to the ground.
- The peninsula's westernmost point is barren Punta Campanella, a familiar site from Capri, with its squat Anjou watchtower.
- I look at the ugly, squat houses and try to imagine being locked in them (along with my entire family) for months on end.
- He is a short, squat man who looks as if, were we to flick him over, he would roll right back up again.
- Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
- Instead, she headed for the Shell House, an ugly, squat building.
- Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
- The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like.
- The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals.
- The main bar and dining area is done up in blonde wood and clean minimalist lines, with rows of high backed wooden chairs and squat stools lining a row of narrow bucket tables along one wall.
- The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens.
- Built in 1905, the existing library is a squat two-storey structure occupying a corner site.
- He has good strength, and his squat build allows him to hold the point of attack.
- The bar here is really just a restaurant waiting area and the squat stools aren't exactly relaxing, but with few diners at this early hour, we're allowed to sit at a table.
- Paved footpaths and squat palm trees, yet to mature, line the main road.
- Night fell and the children made camp in a small alley between two large, squat buildings.
- Her squat, stone house is without electricity or running water.
- A squat Mexican gent came in with a squat Mexican lady.
- Close to where I had been sitting the light picked out a squat toad about the size of a small teapot.
- The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance.
Synonyms
stocky, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, chunky, solid
burly, beefy
cobby
technical mesomorphic, pyknic
Australian/New Zealand nuggety
British informal fubsy
low, stumpy, short, small, stocky, stunted

nounPlural squats skwɒtskwɑt

1in singular A squatting position.
Example sentencesExamples
- From this starting position, sit down into a squat.
- It feels like standing up from a squat while wearing a big, heavy hiking backpack.
- She fell back into a squat from the kneeling position he had raised her to.
- She and eight other women were stripped, searched and then forced to do knee squats while naked.
- Catch the ball, drop into a squat, then spring up, tossing your partner the ball.
- Lower into a squat once again before jumping back to the start.
- Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat.
- First lower your center of gravity so that you're in a slight squat with your feet almost together.
1. 1.1Weightlifting An exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across one's shoulders.
  〔举重〕蹲举训练
  Example sentencesExamples
  Keep the dumbbell centered between your knees as you descend into a deep squat, keeping your head up and low back slightly arched.
  I now move to what I consider the king of all exercises: barbell squats.
  If you want to be a powerlifter, then there are specific training regimens you can follow to increase your poundage for your bench, squat and deadlift.
  Upon reaching the down position of a half squat, press the bar overhead without extending your legs.
  Strong and flexible calves play an important stabilizing role in exercises like the squat, the deadlift and the clean.
2. 1.2 (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action.
  （体操）下蹲动作；下蹲运动
  Example sentencesExamples
  What better way to ‘ease’ back into gym life than with squats and lunges.
  Try squats and lunges if you are at home or leg extensions and lying leg curls if you're a member of a gym.
  The squat - if performed correctly - is a tremendous exercise, and virtually everyone can benefit from doing it.
  So I've decided to compromise, cutting out the carbs at night and doing squats in the living-room.
  The squat is one of the best exercises to develop and define the front of the thigh, glute and hamstring muscles.
2A building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so.
被非法占用的建筑物
a basement room in a North London squat
Example sentencesExamples
- The relationship had deteriorated and she had become depressed, ending up living in squats in Bristol.
- Twenty-two years ago, I moved into a squat in the East Village.
- For the next year he was in and out of special units for child offenders before running away to live with a group of street children in parks, squats and abandoned houses in rundown areas of Lisbon.
- Because the building is frequently used as a squat by the homeless, it was initially feared people may have been trapped inside.
- Many are of ‘no fixed abode’, either living in squats or at established protest camps at airports or proposed roads.
- Those that could not afford to pay for hotels, hostels, or other forms of housing either camped in nearby parks or set up squats around the city in abandoned buildings.
- With the help of a neighbour, Jackson eventually escaped to London but instead of returning home to her mother, she drifted in and out of squats and slept rough for a while.
- A squat also gives people a chance at trying out sustainable living.
- They found the partially clothed body of the man after entering the building, sometimes used as a squat by heroin addicts and the homeless, on Coke Lane off Arran Quay.
- We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked.
- He slept rough for a while then moved into a squat.
- The court heard Bryan had been living in a squat with no heating and no electricity and was desperate to get help for her drug addiction.
- Simone had left home and was living in squats in Clayton before she was found dead in November 1999.
- The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats.
- Homes Not Jails is an organization that opens squats for homeless people and assists in legal and moral support.
- Italian police swept Genoa for arms and raided anarchist squats yesterday as three new bomb scares heightened security fears in the Italian city.
- They got used to us living in squats and living for free.
- We didn't have much money so we lived in a squat with four other people.
- The three of us had been living in the squat together for a week.
- I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton.
1. 2.1 An unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building.
  非法占用空屋
  this squat cost the ratepayer £46,000
  Example sentencesExamples
  Clarke declined to reveal where the squat will take place.
  But talk of large, illegal squats by visiting protesters is already beginning, with parks, streets, riverbanks and even an abandoned hospital as potential targets.
  Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E.
  144 Piccadilly next door was the site of a famous squat in the troubled summer of 1969.
  If the squat is successful, the occupied building will become a self-managed social housing and community centre.
3North American informal
I didn't know squat about writing plays
short for diddly-squat
Example sentencesExamples
- Why hire a " swim specialist " who doesn't know squat about triathlon?
- You coach doesn't know squat so don't take advice from him.
- If he can't be seen by the public, his ability doesn't mean squat.

Derivatives

squatly

adverb

I had missed noticing the two-story circular observation platform when I alighted from the ropeway, but there it was, squatly topping the height of the mountain.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sitting squatly in the beachfront park, the Big Penguin is rumoured to be the largest penguin in the world.
- But there, on the green strip, a seagull stood squatly.
- He rose from the chair and crossed the room to a shadowed corner where a large safe sat squatly.
- Its vast campus stood squatly in the centre of the Grendenburg district.

squatness

noun

Adding to the criticism, a Belgian architect said in 1965 the structure was ‘incredibly overbearing’, denouncing also its squatness and banality.
Example sentencesExamples
- The addition of the larger screen and video capabilities are nice but I'm not keen on the squatness and I particularly dislike the colors.
- For all his seeming squatness, his movements were precise, and his hands in particular were small and sinewy.
- The resulting look is one of solidity and squatness.
- The French bulldog breed is prone to several conditions and congenital diseases the most common of these being problems relating to breathing due to the squatness of their face.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'thrust down with force'): from Old French esquatir 'flatten', based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere 'compel' (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century.

Rhymes

allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht

Definition of squat in US English:

squat

verbskwɑtskwät

1no object Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.
蹲；蹲坐
I squatted down in front of him
我蹲在他的前面。
Example sentencesExamples
- He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye.
- Turning around to face the child, he squatted down to her level.
- Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him.
- Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her.
- He squatted down so he could lift her up into his arms.
- I squat on my heels, one hand on the wire door.
- She was squatting by the fire wrapped in scarlet cloth, her shoulders draped in a soiled blanket.
- ‘Well, lets go,’ I said turning around and squatting a little so she could hop on my back.
- After 35 years of plumbing and heating work, I was having trouble bending my knees and squatting under sinks.
- His friends were shopping inside and he was tired, so he squatted on the ground.
- He squatted outside Kakau's room, watching him sleep.
- Juana finishes cooking his breakfast and he squats by the fire to eat it.
- Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel.
- She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass.
- I looked out the window and saw a furry brown monkey squatting on the roof of a nearby building.
- Daren sat beside her, shivering, and Martin squatted in front of her.
- The older boy squatted down on his heels and waited.
- This medical malaise incidentally is most suffered by wicket-keepers who have to squat hundreds of times a day during a match.
- Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling.
- I squatted down beside him and offered him water.
Synonyms
crouch, crouch down, hunker, hunker down, sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch, cower, cringe
1. 1.1Weightlifting with object Crouch down in a squat and rise again while holding (a specified weight) at one's shoulders.
  〔举重〕蹲举
  he can squat 850 pounds
  他可以蹲举850磅。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You just squatted your heaviest-ever weight.
  I can now squat more than 400 pounds.
  Be certain to warm up before doing squats, deadlifts and military presses.
  If you can usually squat 400 pounds, don't expect to move more than 300 during this routine.
  Below are the equations you can use to predict how much weight you can squat for 10 reps.
  "To start, I could hardly squat 25 pounds, " admits Mary.
  However, I was up to 165 lb on the squats, so that's pretty awesome.
2no object Unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land.
非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地）
eight families are squatting in the house
有八户人家擅自占用了这座房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- We have written a major proposal to rehabilitate the house in which we are illegally squatting.
- Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner.
- In the 1990s, it helped slum residents in Bombay to claim the land they were squatting on and turn it into a proper residential estate with running water and electricity.
- We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in.
- As the military dictatorship began to lose power in 1981, families squatted on land in Solano and built barrios.
- However, bands were increasingly occupying his time when he moved back to squat in west London.
- So Kerry and Michael took the only option left to them - squatting in an empty house.
- The agency has also agreed to rehabilitate ruined public buildings where nearly 800 families are squatting.
- I bloody well hope that he knows these people are squatting on his land.
- Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting.
- Trish and Peter have been living in London for a few years where Trish runs a school and Pete heads up a team of blokes nailing up buildings to stop no hopers squatting.
- Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition.
- The group's main political activity was squatting in unoccupied houses, which they subsequently defended in street battles with police.
- Five miles north, Nokuthula Dube, 22, her two daughters and two orphaned relatives are squatting in an unfinished two-room house of cinder blocks.
- A member of York's alternative community, she was staying in the Bootham house after squatting at the White Swan Hotel in Piccadilly.
- Studio Sputnik started off when we squatted in an old attic of a building while we were still students.
- Mrs Kapijimpanga, however, cautioned the residents against squatting on land that has been unlawfully acquired.
- However, many return, and many illegal immigrants, both children and adults, are squatting in neglected or unfinished buildings in and around the city.
- She said she told the council her reasons for moving and swapped with the person who was living in the house in which she is now squatting.
- Judging by the burnt blankets that the firemen have left beside the building, someone was squatting in there.
1. 2.1with object Occupy (an uninhabited building) unlawfully.
  霸占，侵占（无人居住的房屋）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prior to the Oct. 26 march, OCAP released a statement giving notice of the buildings they intended to squat.
  The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented.
  I just spent the weekend in a terribly cute little shack which has been squatted by kids in Sydney.
  I'd like to give big thanks and love to Mike for allowing us to squat his luxury pad for the week.
  The trauma of resisting developers had seen him end up in a geriatric hospital and his friends had quickly moved in to squat the house.
  When searching for a building to squat, OCAP looks for property that will serve politically as well as functionally.
  The house next door has been squatted by a nice bunch of young punks with seemingly endless supplies of dope.
  But the group made its biggest splash by breaking into an empty shop and squatting it as a ‘social centre’.

adjectiveskwɑtskwät

Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.
矮胖的；矮而宽的
he was muscular and squat
他肌肉发达，矮而壮实。
a squat gray house
一座矮而宽的灰色房子。
Example sentencesExamples
- The bar here is really just a restaurant waiting area and the squat stools aren't exactly relaxing, but with few diners at this early hour, we're allowed to sit at a table.
- Paved footpaths and squat palm trees, yet to mature, line the main road.
- Instead, she headed for the Shell House, an ugly, squat building.
- The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals.
- He is a short, squat man who looks as if, were we to flick him over, he would roll right back up again.
- The peninsula's westernmost point is barren Punta Campanella, a familiar site from Capri, with its squat Anjou watchtower.
- It was a low, squat building, with turf for walls and a thatched roof that sloped nearly to the ground.
- Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
- He has good strength, and his squat build allows him to hold the point of attack.
- Her squat, stone house is without electricity or running water.
- The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like.
- The main bar and dining area is done up in blonde wood and clean minimalist lines, with rows of high backed wooden chairs and squat stools lining a row of narrow bucket tables along one wall.
- The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance.
- A squat Mexican gent came in with a squat Mexican lady.
- Built in 1905, the existing library is a squat two-storey structure occupying a corner site.
- Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
- I look at the ugly, squat houses and try to imagine being locked in them (along with my entire family) for months on end.
- The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens.
- Close to where I had been sitting the light picked out a squat toad about the size of a small teapot.
- Night fell and the children made camp in a small alley between two large, squat buildings.
Synonyms
stocky, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, chunky, solid
low, stumpy, short, small, stocky, stunted

nounskwɑtskwät

1in singular A position in which one's knees are bent and one's heels are close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.
蹲；蹲坐
Example sentencesExamples
- From this starting position, sit down into a squat.
- She fell back into a squat from the kneeling position he had raised her to.
- She and eight other women were stripped, searched and then forced to do knee squats while naked.
- First lower your center of gravity so that you're in a slight squat with your feet almost together.
- Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat.
- It feels like standing up from a squat while wearing a big, heavy hiking backpack.
- Catch the ball, drop into a squat, then spring up, tossing your partner the ball.
- Lower into a squat once again before jumping back to the start.
1. 1.1Weightlifting An exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell at shoulder level.
  〔举重〕蹲举训练
  Example sentencesExamples
  I now move to what I consider the king of all exercises: barbell squats.
  Keep the dumbbell centered between your knees as you descend into a deep squat, keeping your head up and low back slightly arched.
  Strong and flexible calves play an important stabilizing role in exercises like the squat, the deadlift and the clean.
  Upon reaching the down position of a half squat, press the bar overhead without extending your legs.
  If you want to be a powerlifter, then there are specific training regimens you can follow to increase your poundage for your bench, squat and deadlift.
2. 1.2 (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action.
  （体操）下蹲动作；下蹲运动
  Example sentencesExamples
  Try squats and lunges if you are at home or leg extensions and lying leg curls if you're a member of a gym.
  So I've decided to compromise, cutting out the carbs at night and doing squats in the living-room.
  The squat is one of the best exercises to develop and define the front of the thigh, glute and hamstring muscles.
  What better way to ‘ease’ back into gym life than with squats and lunges.
  The squat - if performed correctly - is a tremendous exercise, and virtually everyone can benefit from doing it.
2A building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so.
被非法占用的建筑物
Example sentencesExamples
- With the help of a neighbour, Jackson eventually escaped to London but instead of returning home to her mother, she drifted in and out of squats and slept rough for a while.
- The relationship had deteriorated and she had become depressed, ending up living in squats in Bristol.
- Those that could not afford to pay for hotels, hostels, or other forms of housing either camped in nearby parks or set up squats around the city in abandoned buildings.
- We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked.
- We didn't have much money so we lived in a squat with four other people.
- They found the partially clothed body of the man after entering the building, sometimes used as a squat by heroin addicts and the homeless, on Coke Lane off Arran Quay.
- I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton.
- They got used to us living in squats and living for free.
- Many are of ‘no fixed abode’, either living in squats or at established protest camps at airports or proposed roads.
- Italian police swept Genoa for arms and raided anarchist squats yesterday as three new bomb scares heightened security fears in the Italian city.
- The court heard Bryan had been living in a squat with no heating and no electricity and was desperate to get help for her drug addiction.
- For the next year he was in and out of special units for child offenders before running away to live with a group of street children in parks, squats and abandoned houses in rundown areas of Lisbon.
- The three of us had been living in the squat together for a week.
- Because the building is frequently used as a squat by the homeless, it was initially feared people may have been trapped inside.
- He slept rough for a while then moved into a squat.
- Twenty-two years ago, I moved into a squat in the East Village.
- Simone had left home and was living in squats in Clayton before she was found dead in November 1999.
- Homes Not Jails is an organization that opens squats for homeless people and assists in legal and moral support.
- A squat also gives people a chance at trying out sustainable living.
- The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats.
1. 2.1 An unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building.
  非法占用空屋
  Example sentencesExamples
  144 Piccadilly next door was the site of a famous squat in the troubled summer of 1969.
  Clarke declined to reveal where the squat will take place.
  But talk of large, illegal squats by visiting protesters is already beginning, with parks, streets, riverbanks and even an abandoned hospital as potential targets.
  Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E.
  If the squat is successful, the occupied building will become a self-managed social housing and community centre.
3North American informal
I didn't know squat about writing plays
short for diddly-squat
Example sentencesExamples
- Why hire a " swim specialist " who doesn't know squat about triathlon?
- If he can't be seen by the public, his ability doesn't mean squat.
- You coach doesn't know squat so don't take advice from him.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’ (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century.

单词	squat
释义	Definition of squat in English: squat verbsquats, squatted, squatting skwɒtskwɑt 1no object Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs. 蹲；蹲坐 I squatted down in front of him 我蹲在他的前面。 Example sentencesExamples I squat on my heels, one hand on the wire door. Turning around to face the child, he squatted down to her level. He squatted outside Kakau's room, watching him sleep. After 35 years of plumbing and heating work, I was having trouble bending my knees and squatting under sinks. His friends were shopping inside and he was tired, so he squatted on the ground. Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling. She was squatting by the fire wrapped in scarlet cloth, her shoulders draped in a soiled blanket. He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye. Daren sat beside her, shivering, and Martin squatted in front of her. The older boy squatted down on his heels and waited. Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her. I squatted down beside him and offered him water. Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel. Juana finishes cooking his breakfast and he squats by the fire to eat it. ‘Well, lets go,’ I said turning around and squatting a little so she could hop on my back. This medical malaise incidentally is most suffered by wicket-keepers who have to squat hundreds of times a day during a match. Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him. I looked out the window and saw a furry brown monkey squatting on the roof of a nearby building. He squatted down so he could lift her up into his arms. She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass. Synonyms crouch (down), hunker (down), sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch, cower, cringe North American informal scooch 1.1Weightlifting with object Crouch down with one's knees bent and rise again while holding (a specified weight) across one's shoulders. 〔举重〕蹲举 he can squat 850 pounds 他可以蹲举850磅。 Example sentencesExamples If you can usually squat 400 pounds, don't expect to move more than 300 during this routine. However, I was up to 165 lb on the squats, so that's pretty awesome. Be certain to warm up before doing squats, deadlifts and military presses. You just squatted your heaviest-ever weight. I can now squat more than 400 pounds. Below are the equations you can use to predict how much weight you can squat for 10 reps. "To start, I could hardly squat 25 pounds, " admits Mary. 2no object Unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land. 非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地） eight families are squatting in the house 有八户人家擅自占用了这座房子。 Example sentencesExamples The agency has also agreed to rehabilitate ruined public buildings where nearly 800 families are squatting. Five miles north, Nokuthula Dube, 22, her two daughters and two orphaned relatives are squatting in an unfinished two-room house of cinder blocks. Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting. Trish and Peter have been living in London for a few years where Trish runs a school and Pete heads up a team of blokes nailing up buildings to stop no hopers squatting. We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in. In the 1990s, it helped slum residents in Bombay to claim the land they were squatting on and turn it into a proper residential estate with running water and electricity. However, many return, and many illegal immigrants, both children and adults, are squatting in neglected or unfinished buildings in and around the city. However, bands were increasingly occupying his time when he moved back to squat in west London. She said she told the council her reasons for moving and swapped with the person who was living in the house in which she is now squatting. Mrs Kapijimpanga, however, cautioned the residents against squatting on land that has been unlawfully acquired. As the military dictatorship began to lose power in 1981, families squatted on land in Solano and built barrios. Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition. The group's main political activity was squatting in unoccupied houses, which they subsequently defended in street battles with police. We have written a major proposal to rehabilitate the house in which we are illegally squatting. A member of York's alternative community, she was staying in the Bootham house after squatting at the White Swan Hotel in Piccadilly. Judging by the burnt blankets that the firemen have left beside the building, someone was squatting in there. So Kerry and Michael took the only option left to them - squatting in an empty house. I bloody well hope that he knows these people are squatting on his land. Studio Sputnik started off when we squatted in an old attic of a building while we were still students. Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner. 2.1with object Unlawfully occupy (an uninhabited building) 非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地） Clare, Briony, and the others had squatted the old council house Example sentencesExamples I just spent the weekend in a terribly cute little shack which has been squatted by kids in Sydney. The trauma of resisting developers had seen him end up in a geriatric hospital and his friends had quickly moved in to squat the house. Prior to the Oct. 26 march, OCAP released a statement giving notice of the buildings they intended to squat. When searching for a building to squat, OCAP looks for property that will serve politically as well as functionally. I'd like to give big thanks and love to Mike for allowing us to squat his luxury pad for the week. But the group made its biggest splash by breaking into an empty shop and squatting it as a ‘social centre’. The house next door has been squatted by a nice bunch of young punks with seemingly endless supplies of dope. The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented. 2.2Australian, NZ historical no object Occupy a tract of Crown land in order to graze cattle or sheep. many people moved further out and squatted on the land Example sentencesExamples Those who had eked out a marginal existence by squatting on the commons were evicted. John McMillan, who is believed to have named the creek in the area Scotchmans Creek, squatted and grazed cattle. The great expanse of unoccupied land available for squatting throughout southeastern Australia implied that the sheep could be left to wander. In the bush the first owner-builders also operated outside the law as they squatted on Crown land. The 1841 census shows the Connors family squatting at Queuck. adjectivesquatter, squattest skwɒtskwɑt Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide. 矮胖的；矮而宽的 he was muscular and squat 他肌肉发达，矮而壮实。 a squat grey house 一座矮而宽的灰色房子。 Example sentencesExamples It was a low, squat building, with turf for walls and a thatched roof that sloped nearly to the ground. The peninsula's westernmost point is barren Punta Campanella, a familiar site from Capri, with its squat Anjou watchtower. I look at the ugly, squat houses and try to imagine being locked in them (along with my entire family) for months on end. He is a short, squat man who looks as if, were we to flick him over, he would roll right back up again. Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio. Instead, she headed for the Shell House, an ugly, squat building. Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints. The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like. The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals. The main bar and dining area is done up in blonde wood and clean minimalist lines, with rows of high backed wooden chairs and squat stools lining a row of narrow bucket tables along one wall. The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens. Built in 1905, the existing library is a squat two-storey structure occupying a corner site. He has good strength, and his squat build allows him to hold the point of attack. The bar here is really just a restaurant waiting area and the squat stools aren't exactly relaxing, but with few diners at this early hour, we're allowed to sit at a table. Paved footpaths and squat palm trees, yet to mature, line the main road. Night fell and the children made camp in a small alley between two large, squat buildings. Her squat, stone house is without electricity or running water. A squat Mexican gent came in with a squat Mexican lady. Close to where I had been sitting the light picked out a squat toad about the size of a small teapot. The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance. Synonyms stocky, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, chunky, solid burly, beefy cobby technical mesomorphic, pyknic Australian/New Zealand nuggety British informal fubsy low, stumpy, short, small, stocky, stunted nounPlural squats skwɒtskwɑt 1in singular A squatting position. Example sentencesExamples From this starting position, sit down into a squat. It feels like standing up from a squat while wearing a big, heavy hiking backpack. She fell back into a squat from the kneeling position he had raised her to. She and eight other women were stripped, searched and then forced to do knee squats while naked. Catch the ball, drop into a squat, then spring up, tossing your partner the ball. Lower into a squat once again before jumping back to the start. Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat. First lower your center of gravity so that you're in a slight squat with your feet almost together. 1.1Weightlifting An exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across one's shoulders. 〔举重〕蹲举训练 Example sentencesExamples Keep the dumbbell centered between your knees as you descend into a deep squat, keeping your head up and low back slightly arched. I now move to what I consider the king of all exercises: barbell squats. If you want to be a powerlifter, then there are specific training regimens you can follow to increase your poundage for your bench, squat and deadlift. Upon reaching the down position of a half squat, press the bar overhead without extending your legs. Strong and flexible calves play an important stabilizing role in exercises like the squat, the deadlift and the clean. 1.2 (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action. （体操）下蹲动作；下蹲运动 Example sentencesExamples What better way to ‘ease’ back into gym life than with squats and lunges. Try squats and lunges if you are at home or leg extensions and lying leg curls if you're a member of a gym. The squat - if performed correctly - is a tremendous exercise, and virtually everyone can benefit from doing it. So I've decided to compromise, cutting out the carbs at night and doing squats in the living-room. The squat is one of the best exercises to develop and define the front of the thigh, glute and hamstring muscles. 2A building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so. 被非法占用的建筑物 a basement room in a North London squat Example sentencesExamples The relationship had deteriorated and she had become depressed, ending up living in squats in Bristol. Twenty-two years ago, I moved into a squat in the East Village. For the next year he was in and out of special units for child offenders before running away to live with a group of street children in parks, squats and abandoned houses in rundown areas of Lisbon. Because the building is frequently used as a squat by the homeless, it was initially feared people may have been trapped inside. Many are of ‘no fixed abode’, either living in squats or at established protest camps at airports or proposed roads. Those that could not afford to pay for hotels, hostels, or other forms of housing either camped in nearby parks or set up squats around the city in abandoned buildings. With the help of a neighbour, Jackson eventually escaped to London but instead of returning home to her mother, she drifted in and out of squats and slept rough for a while. A squat also gives people a chance at trying out sustainable living. They found the partially clothed body of the man after entering the building, sometimes used as a squat by heroin addicts and the homeless, on Coke Lane off Arran Quay. We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked. He slept rough for a while then moved into a squat. The court heard Bryan had been living in a squat with no heating and no electricity and was desperate to get help for her drug addiction. Simone had left home and was living in squats in Clayton before she was found dead in November 1999. The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats. Homes Not Jails is an organization that opens squats for homeless people and assists in legal and moral support. Italian police swept Genoa for arms and raided anarchist squats yesterday as three new bomb scares heightened security fears in the Italian city. They got used to us living in squats and living for free. We didn't have much money so we lived in a squat with four other people. The three of us had been living in the squat together for a week. I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton. 2.1 An unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building. 非法占用空屋 this squat cost the ratepayer £46,000 Example sentencesExamples Clarke declined to reveal where the squat will take place. But talk of large, illegal squats by visiting protesters is already beginning, with parks, streets, riverbanks and even an abandoned hospital as potential targets. Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E. 144 Piccadilly next door was the site of a famous squat in the troubled summer of 1969. If the squat is successful, the occupied building will become a self-managed social housing and community centre. 3North American informal I didn't know squat about writing plays short for diddly-squat Example sentencesExamples Why hire a " swim specialist " who doesn't know squat about triathlon? You coach doesn't know squat so don't take advice from him. If he can't be seen by the public, his ability doesn't mean squat. Derivatives squatly adverb I had missed noticing the two-story circular observation platform when I alighted from the ropeway, but there it was, squatly topping the height of the mountain. Example sentencesExamples Sitting squatly in the beachfront park, the Big Penguin is rumoured to be the largest penguin in the world. But there, on the green strip, a seagull stood squatly. He rose from the chair and crossed the room to a shadowed corner where a large safe sat squatly. Its vast campus stood squatly in the centre of the Grendenburg district. squatness noun Adding to the criticism, a Belgian architect said in 1965 the structure was ‘incredibly overbearing’, denouncing also its squatness and banality. Example sentencesExamples The addition of the larger screen and video capabilities are nice but I'm not keen on the squatness and I particularly dislike the colors. For all his seeming squatness, his movements were precise, and his hands in particular were small and sinewy. The resulting look is one of solidity and squatness. The French bulldog breed is prone to several conditions and congenital diseases the most common of these being problems relating to breathing due to the squatness of their face. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'thrust down with force'): from Old French esquatir 'flatten', based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere 'compel' (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century. Rhymes allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht Definition of squat in US English: squat verbskwɑtskwät 1no object Crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs. 蹲；蹲坐 I squatted down in front of him 我蹲在他的前面。 Example sentencesExamples He moved over to me and squatted down on his haunches so he could look at me eye to eye. Turning around to face the child, he squatted down to her level. Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him. Feeling threatened she scrabbled backward when the man squatted down in front of her. He squatted down so he could lift her up into his arms. I squat on my heels, one hand on the wire door. She was squatting by the fire wrapped in scarlet cloth, her shoulders draped in a soiled blanket. ‘Well, lets go,’ I said turning around and squatting a little so she could hop on my back. After 35 years of plumbing and heating work, I was having trouble bending my knees and squatting under sinks. His friends were shopping inside and he was tired, so he squatted on the ground. He squatted outside Kakau's room, watching him sleep. Juana finishes cooking his breakfast and he squats by the fire to eat it. Buffy's leather pants creaked as she squatted down next to Angel. She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass. I looked out the window and saw a furry brown monkey squatting on the roof of a nearby building. Daren sat beside her, shivering, and Martin squatted in front of her. The older boy squatted down on his heels and waited. This medical malaise incidentally is most suffered by wicket-keepers who have to squat hundreds of times a day during a match. Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling. I squatted down beside him and offered him water. Synonyms crouch, crouch down, hunker, hunker down, sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch, cower, cringe 1.1Weightlifting with object Crouch down in a squat and rise again while holding (a specified weight) at one's shoulders. 〔举重〕蹲举 he can squat 850 pounds 他可以蹲举850磅。 Example sentencesExamples You just squatted your heaviest-ever weight. I can now squat more than 400 pounds. Be certain to warm up before doing squats, deadlifts and military presses. If you can usually squat 400 pounds, don't expect to move more than 300 during this routine. Below are the equations you can use to predict how much weight you can squat for 10 reps. "To start, I could hardly squat 25 pounds, " admits Mary. However, I was up to 165 lb on the squats, so that's pretty awesome. 2no object Unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land. 非法占用，擅自占用（无人居住的房屋或土地） eight families are squatting in the house 有八户人家擅自占用了这座房子。 Example sentencesExamples We have written a major proposal to rehabilitate the house in which we are illegally squatting. Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner. In the 1990s, it helped slum residents in Bombay to claim the land they were squatting on and turn it into a proper residential estate with running water and electricity. We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in. As the military dictatorship began to lose power in 1981, families squatted on land in Solano and built barrios. However, bands were increasingly occupying his time when he moved back to squat in west London. So Kerry and Michael took the only option left to them - squatting in an empty house. The agency has also agreed to rehabilitate ruined public buildings where nearly 800 families are squatting. I bloody well hope that he knows these people are squatting on his land. Two families have squatted in a shell-scarred mansion for the duration of the fighting. Trish and Peter have been living in London for a few years where Trish runs a school and Pete heads up a team of blokes nailing up buildings to stop no hopers squatting. Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition. The group's main political activity was squatting in unoccupied houses, which they subsequently defended in street battles with police. Five miles north, Nokuthula Dube, 22, her two daughters and two orphaned relatives are squatting in an unfinished two-room house of cinder blocks. A member of York's alternative community, she was staying in the Bootham house after squatting at the White Swan Hotel in Piccadilly. Studio Sputnik started off when we squatted in an old attic of a building while we were still students. Mrs Kapijimpanga, however, cautioned the residents against squatting on land that has been unlawfully acquired. However, many return, and many illegal immigrants, both children and adults, are squatting in neglected or unfinished buildings in and around the city. She said she told the council her reasons for moving and swapped with the person who was living in the house in which she is now squatting. Judging by the burnt blankets that the firemen have left beside the building, someone was squatting in there. 2.1with object Occupy (an uninhabited building) unlawfully. 霸占，侵占（无人居住的房屋） Example sentencesExamples Prior to the Oct. 26 march, OCAP released a statement giving notice of the buildings they intended to squat. The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented. I just spent the weekend in a terribly cute little shack which has been squatted by kids in Sydney. I'd like to give big thanks and love to Mike for allowing us to squat his luxury pad for the week. The trauma of resisting developers had seen him end up in a geriatric hospital and his friends had quickly moved in to squat the house. When searching for a building to squat, OCAP looks for property that will serve politically as well as functionally. The house next door has been squatted by a nice bunch of young punks with seemingly endless supplies of dope. But the group made its biggest splash by breaking into an empty shop and squatting it as a ‘social centre’. adjectiveskwɑtskwät Short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide. 矮胖的；矮而宽的 he was muscular and squat 他肌肉发达，矮而壮实。 a squat gray house 一座矮而宽的灰色房子。 Example sentencesExamples The bar here is really just a restaurant waiting area and the squat stools aren't exactly relaxing, but with few diners at this early hour, we're allowed to sit at a table. Paved footpaths and squat palm trees, yet to mature, line the main road. Instead, she headed for the Shell House, an ugly, squat building. The squat red and white brick fortress has had a chequered history and was, during one era, the home of a countess whose repressive husband, the Count of Gomera, was murdered by the locals. He is a short, squat man who looks as if, were we to flick him over, he would roll right back up again. The peninsula's westernmost point is barren Punta Campanella, a familiar site from Capri, with its squat Anjou watchtower. It was a low, squat building, with turf for walls and a thatched roof that sloped nearly to the ground. Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints. He has good strength, and his squat build allows him to hold the point of attack. Her squat, stone house is without electricity or running water. The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like. The main bar and dining area is done up in blonde wood and clean minimalist lines, with rows of high backed wooden chairs and squat stools lining a row of narrow bucket tables along one wall. The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance. A squat Mexican gent came in with a squat Mexican lady. Built in 1905, the existing library is a squat two-storey structure occupying a corner site. Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio. I look at the ugly, squat houses and try to imagine being locked in them (along with my entire family) for months on end. The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens. Close to where I had been sitting the light picked out a squat toad about the size of a small teapot. Night fell and the children made camp in a small alley between two large, squat buildings. Synonyms stocky, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, thickset, heavily built, sturdy, sturdily built, heavyset, chunky, solid low, stumpy, short, small, stocky, stunted nounskwɑtskwät 1in singular A position in which one's knees are bent and one's heels are close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs. 蹲；蹲坐 Example sentencesExamples From this starting position, sit down into a squat. She fell back into a squat from the kneeling position he had raised her to. She and eight other women were stripped, searched and then forced to do knee squats while naked. First lower your center of gravity so that you're in a slight squat with your feet almost together. Sometimes an episiotomy can be avoided simply by choosing a different position for the delivery, for example, kneeling, on all fours, or a supported squat. It feels like standing up from a squat while wearing a big, heavy hiking backpack. Catch the ball, drop into a squat, then spring up, tossing your partner the ball. Lower into a squat once again before jumping back to the start. 1.1Weightlifting An exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell at shoulder level. 〔举重〕蹲举训练 Example sentencesExamples I now move to what I consider the king of all exercises: barbell squats. Keep the dumbbell centered between your knees as you descend into a deep squat, keeping your head up and low back slightly arched. Strong and flexible calves play an important stabilizing role in exercises like the squat, the deadlift and the clean. Upon reaching the down position of a half squat, press the bar overhead without extending your legs. If you want to be a powerlifter, then there are specific training regimens you can follow to increase your poundage for your bench, squat and deadlift. 1.2 (in gymnastics) an exercise involving a squatting movement or action. （体操）下蹲动作；下蹲运动 Example sentencesExamples Try squats and lunges if you are at home or leg extensions and lying leg curls if you're a member of a gym. So I've decided to compromise, cutting out the carbs at night and doing squats in the living-room. The squat is one of the best exercises to develop and define the front of the thigh, glute and hamstring muscles. What better way to ‘ease’ back into gym life than with squats and lunges. The squat - if performed correctly - is a tremendous exercise, and virtually everyone can benefit from doing it. 2A building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so. 被非法占用的建筑物 Example sentencesExamples With the help of a neighbour, Jackson eventually escaped to London but instead of returning home to her mother, she drifted in and out of squats and slept rough for a while. The relationship had deteriorated and she had become depressed, ending up living in squats in Bristol. Those that could not afford to pay for hotels, hostels, or other forms of housing either camped in nearby parks or set up squats around the city in abandoned buildings. We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked. We didn't have much money so we lived in a squat with four other people. They found the partially clothed body of the man after entering the building, sometimes used as a squat by heroin addicts and the homeless, on Coke Lane off Arran Quay. I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton. They got used to us living in squats and living for free. Many are of ‘no fixed abode’, either living in squats or at established protest camps at airports or proposed roads. Italian police swept Genoa for arms and raided anarchist squats yesterday as three new bomb scares heightened security fears in the Italian city. The court heard Bryan had been living in a squat with no heating and no electricity and was desperate to get help for her drug addiction. For the next year he was in and out of special units for child offenders before running away to live with a group of street children in parks, squats and abandoned houses in rundown areas of Lisbon. The three of us had been living in the squat together for a week. Because the building is frequently used as a squat by the homeless, it was initially feared people may have been trapped inside. He slept rough for a while then moved into a squat. Twenty-two years ago, I moved into a squat in the East Village. Simone had left home and was living in squats in Clayton before she was found dead in November 1999. Homes Not Jails is an organization that opens squats for homeless people and assists in legal and moral support. A squat also gives people a chance at trying out sustainable living. The Victorian building had been divided into four flats and, together with the neighbouring house, was being used as squats. 2.1 An unlawful occupation of an uninhabited building. 非法占用空屋 Example sentencesExamples 144 Piccadilly next door was the site of a famous squat in the troubled summer of 1969. Clarke declined to reveal where the squat will take place. But talk of large, illegal squats by visiting protesters is already beginning, with parks, streets, riverbanks and even an abandoned hospital as potential targets. Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E. If the squat is successful, the occupied building will become a self-managed social housing and community centre. 3North American informal I didn't know squat about writing plays short for diddly-squat Example sentencesExamples Why hire a " swim specialist " who doesn't know squat about triathlon? If he can't be seen by the public, his ability doesn't mean squat. You coach doesn't know squat so don't take advice from him. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘thrust down with force’): from Old French esquatir ‘flatten’, based on Latin coactus, past participle of cogere ‘compel’ (see cogent). The current sense of the adjective dates from the mid 17th century.
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