squatted

Verb

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

1. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
   • He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.1901, Miles Franklin, “An Introduction to ’Possum Gully”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 10
2. To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
   • For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting we suggest learning how to squat by performing the front squat […] The front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.1994, Kurt Brungardt, Mike Brungardt, Brett Brungardt, The Complete Book of Butt and Legs, New York, N.Y.: Villard Books, →ISBN, page 161
3. (transitive) To lift (a barbell) while performing a squat
   • I can squat 150 lbs.
4. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
   • Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 77
5. To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation.
   • "But there seemed to be little satisfaction got out of this run; every moment the hare squatted, and the hounds lost the scent time after time."1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76
6. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.

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