SQUAT
What does "SQUAT" mean?
To crouch down low with the knees bent and heels close to the buttocks.
Meanings
- To lower the body by bending the knees, keeping the weight on the feet. He squatted to tie his shoe and study the cracked pavement.
- To occupy an empty building or land without legal right. Artists squatted in the abandoned factory for years.
- Short and thick; low and broad. A squat little teapot sat on the stove.
- A strength exercise of bending the knees and rising while bearing weight. Her squat max climbed by twenty pounds this month.
Word origin
From Old French 'esquatir', meaning to crush or flatten, from 'es-' (intensive) plus 'quatir' (to press down), from Latin 'coactare' (to constrain).
Remember it
SQUAT keeps you SQUAre and flAT to the ground - bend low and stay grounded.
A little poem
Knees fold, the world tilts-
down where the toddler points, an
ant hauls its whole house.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the empty warehouse I'd be staying a while - it didn't say squat, so I took that as a yes.
What it teaches
Sometimes you have to get low before you can lift anything; the squat is where the strength begins.
Quick facts
What does SQUAT mean?
To crouch down low with the knees bent and heels close to the buttocks.
Is SQUAT a valid word?
Yes — SQUAT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SQUAT?
SQUAT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SQUAT come from?
From Old French 'esquatir', meaning to crush or flatten, from 'es-' (intensive) plus 'quatir' (to press down), from Latin 'coactare' (to constrain).
What can SQUAT teach us?
Sometimes you have to get low before you can lift anything; the squat is where the strength begins.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.