squat

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Imagine if you were the first person to squat land near what has now become Manhattan.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of squat gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"

noun

the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for squat.

noun

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

noun

a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"

noun

the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels

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"

verb

be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"

verb

occupy (a dwelling) illegally

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"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"

See also: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy

adjective

having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground

Example sentences

Imagine if you were the first person to squat land near what has now become Manhattan.

It looks like one of those websites that squat popular domains with ads and a "fake" search engine.

This guy is missing the fact that in a lot of European countries, and elsewhere in the world, carriers mean squat.

If you're investigating a security situation, you don't have to say squat.

A great example is squatting on a smith machine, which puts you into very dangerous positions.

As anyone who has actually read any of the articles about this can tell you, they did not actually overturn squat.

This means realizing that — no matter how passionate we are about our hard-earned skills — it usually means diddly squat to our clients.

I have trainees who struggle to squat past parallel for weeks or months, who can't do a Tabata cycle of more than 8 squats and who struggle to do real pushups after weeks of training.

/sigh interview techniques really are a perennial topic on HN.> [a coding test] won't tell you squat about how good they are in a year long project with 10 other people,The author misses the point of a coding test.

Before the ML class I could not even argue with these guys because I did not know squat about AI and talking to these experts their advice was to take a year off and learn math and then start learning AI which in my case was not possible.

Isn't "graphic designer" just a pigeon-hole limiting title that doesn't really mean squat when thinking about product design at a high-level?Apple, in the past, has gotten things right because they thought about product correctly at every level.

[1]If you're "starting out", then bodyweight exercises like pullups, chinups, bodyweight squats, planks, pushups, situps, are going to be low barrier to entry, good-habit inducing work that can be leveraged to take the person to the next level when they're comfortable.