OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15657

squat

/skwɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
rechoncho • retaco
Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges […]
What in the midst lay but the Tower itself? / The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of round stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world. […]
de cuclillas • en cuclillas
Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 15658

squat

/skwɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuclillas
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
cuclilla • sentadilla
Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
Before we can discuss ass-to-grass squats, or ATG squats for short, we must first establish some knowledge about squats in general. […] Now, lift the bar off the squat rack rests a…
The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat.
casa okupada • edificio okupado • okupa • okupación
A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
"Keeping your friends warm and dry, that doesn't happen here. If you want to spend a night in a squat, it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become st…
Your dumb self can't appreciate the freedom in my thought / The weak sense of autonomy when I'm flipping in my squat
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 15659

squat

/skwɒt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acuclillarse • acurrucarse • agacharse • apucuyarse • añangotarse • encuclillarse • ñangotarse
To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
ocupar • okupar
To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always fr…