squat

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to crouch low with bent knees, or short and thick in form

   She had to squat down to reach the bottom shelf.

From Old French esquatir ('to crush, flatten'), from es- (Latin ex-) + quatir ('to press down'), from Vulgar Latin *coactire, from Latin coactus ('compressed'), from cogere ('to drive together').

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