squat

squat is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The angel fish (Squatina angelus). Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
2. transitive verb. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
3. transitive verb. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
4. transitive verb. To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
5. transitive verb. To bruise or make flat by a fall.
6. adjective. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
7. adjective. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
8. noun. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
9. noun. A sudden or crushing fall.
10. noun. A small vein of ore.
11. noun. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
12. noun. the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels

    Synonyms: squatting

13. noun. exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles

    Synonyms: squatting

14. noun. a small worthless amount

    "you don't know jack"

    Synonyms: diddley, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, jack, shit

15. verb. sit on one's heels

    "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"

    "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"

    Synonyms: crouch, hunker, scrunch

16. verb. occupy (a dwelling) illegally
17. verb. be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide

    "The building squatted low"

18. adjective. having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground

    Synonyms: underslung

19. adjective. 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"

    Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, squatty, stumpy

Synonyms

squatting, diddley, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, jack, shit, crouch, hunker, scrunch, underslung, chunky, dumpy, squatty, stumpy

Common word forms

squats, squatly, squatment, squatness

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