Squat

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The word squat, squatter or squatting can refer to:

  • A squat is a kind of sitting position.
  • Squatting (pastoral) is a term from Australian history, referring to the action of a person (the squatter) who occupied a large tract of Crown Land in order to graze livestock.
    • Squatter (game), a popular Australian board game about managing such a sheep-station.
  • Squatting is a term for inhabiting an unused building or plot of land without owning it; a person squatting is known as a squatter, and the house or building occupied by squatters is known as a squat.
  • Cybersquatting refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder.
  • A species of Flanimal from the book More Flanimals by Ricky Gervais
  • A squat toilet is a type of toilet where the user squats rather than sits on a seat.
  • Squat (exercise), a lower-body exercise in weight training, which is also used as a lift in powerlifting.
  • In slang, squat is a term which can mean "of little or no value", as in "this computer isn't worth squat."
  • Squat is the alternate name of the titular character in Scott Adams's comic Plop: The Hairless Elbonian.
  • Squat (shipping term), used to describe a number of hydrodynamic phenomena.
  • Squats (Warhammer 40,000) are a defunct race in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
  • Diddly-Squat means nothing. Like, "I owe you diddly squat!"
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