What is the meaning of squat?

noun

• Exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles.
  • synonyms: knee bend, squatting
• A small worthless amount.
  • usage: "you don't know jack"
  • synonyms: jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, shit
• The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels.
  • synonyms: squatting

verb

• Sit on one's heels.
  • usage: "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
  • synonyms: crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down
• Be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide.
  • usage: "The building squatted low"
• Occupy (a dwelling) illegally.

adjective

• Short and thick; as e. G. Having short legs and heavy musculature.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy
• Having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground.
  • synonyms: underslung