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’.