squats

Noun

squat (countable and uncountable, plural squats)

1. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
   • Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.2006, Yael Calhoun, Matthew R. Calhoun, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids: Fun, Flexibility, and Focus, Santa Fe, N.M.: Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 72
2. Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
   1. A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat).
      • The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat.2001, Robert Wolff, Robert Wolff's Book of Great Workouts: Everything You Need to Know to Vary Your Routine and Keep You Motivated, Lincolnwood and Chicago, Ill.: Contemporary Books, →ISBN, pages...
3. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
   • Your dumb self can't appreciate the freedom in my thought / The weak sense of autonomy when I'm flipping in my squat1996, “Born To Die”, in Squatta's Paradise, performed by Choking Victim, Whattsa Matta U Rekidz
4. A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
5. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.

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