Definition of "squat" []

• To sit in a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels. (verb-intransitive)
• To crouch down, as an animal does. (verb-intransitive)
• To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim. (verb-intransitive)
• To occupy a given piece of public land in order to acquire title to it. (verb-intransitive)
• To put (oneself) into a crouching posture. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The hope was to revive the city's 19th-century fabric, but the result has been block after block of plain squat structures, many desi gned, much to their chagrin, by the world's greatest architects. illustration by Jean-Manuel Duvivier After taking in the model, I went upstairs to have a chat with his successor, a Swiss architect named Regula L ü scher, who had been Z ü rich's city planner before she came here."
• "Ha, I don't want to hear squat from the DUMOCRATS who like the crooked Clinton Family, the Idiot Pelosi, the Scmuck Obama, and the flaming Barney Frank."
• "So it's unlikely we'll hear squat from the Cheneys now that their most loyal supporters are using gay people like Mary to gay-bait John Kerry."