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Synonyms for squat

crouch down

Synonyms

  • crouch down
  • sit on your heels
  • hunker down
  • sit on your haunches
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for squat

to sit on one's heels

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to stoop low with the limbs pulled in close to the body

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Synonyms for squat

exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent

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

sit on one's heels

be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide

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occupy (a dwelling) illegally

short and thick

having a low center of gravity

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References in classic literature ?
Back of them again squatted several of the hairy apes.
It waddled in on its ten short legs, and squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy.
Side by side they had squatted near the water, their quick, strong fingers ready to leap forth and seize Pisah, the fish, should that wary denizen of the cool depths dart surfaceward to the lure of the insects Tarzan tossed upon the face of the pool.
So now she squatted upon her haunches and insulted both her admirers impartially.
Tarzan had recovered the greater part of his rope and was busy fashioning a new noose, while Teeka squatted close behind him, in evident token that her choice was made.
He turned his eyes upon the rykor and squatted there glaring at the insensate thing.
He squatted down, holding the pan in his two hands, and partly immersing it in the stream.
He dropped the shovel and squatted suddenly on his heels.
But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor.
I too squatted by Noma's head, and grew quick-witted in my fear.
In the meantime, and from the day he washed seven hundred dollars from a single pan and squatted over it and thought a long thought, he never again touched hand to pick and shovel.