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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 squat
      adj 1: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
             musculature; "some people seem born to be square and
             chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman";
             "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears";
             "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red
             smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: chunky,
              dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy]
      2: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
         [syn: underslung]
      n 1: exercising by repeatedly assuming a squatting position;
           strengthens the leg muscles [syn: knee bend, squatting]
      2: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack,
          diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit,
          diddly, diddley, shit]
      3: the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position
         [syn: squatting]
      v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
           while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
           themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: crouch, scrunch,
            scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
      2: be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The
         building squatted low"
      3: occupy (a dwelling) illegally
      [also: squatting, squatted, squattest, squatter]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 squattest
      See squat