v.
 (squats, squatting, squatted)
  - crouch or sit with the knees bent and the heels close to or touching the buttocks or thighs.
 - unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or area of land.
 
adj.
 (squatter, squattest)
 short or low, and disproportionately broad or wide.
n.
   - a squatting position or movement. 
▸Weightlifting  an exercise in which a person squats down and rises again while holding a barbell across the shoulders.
 - a building occupied by squatters. 
▸an act of squatting in an uninhabited building.
 - N. Amer. informal short for diddly-squat.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - squatly adv.
  - squatness n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. esquatir ‘flatten’, based on L. coactus, past part. of cogere ‘compel’.