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squat

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1. squat - Noun

2. squat - Adjective

3. squat - Verb

4. squat - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

To bruise or make flat by a fall.

Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.

The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

A sudden or crushing fall.

A small vein of ore.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. H. P. Lovecraft

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne

We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. Clive Barker

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Seamus Heaney

Never squat with your spurs on. Texan Proverb

Don't squat with your spurs on. Cowboy Proverb

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