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Definitions for Squatter

[1] a person or thing that squats.
[2] a person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent.
[3] a person who settles on land under government regulation, in order to acquire title.
[4] to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
[5] to crouch down or cower, as an animal.
[6] to settle on or occupy property, especially otherwise unoccupied property, without any title, right, or payment of rent.
[7] to settle on public land under government regulation, in order to acquire title.
[8] Nautical . (of a vessel, especially a power vessel) to draw more water astern when in motion forward than when at rest.
[9] to cause to squat.
[10] to occupy (property) as a squatter.
[11] (of a person, animal, the body, etc.) short and thickset.
[12] low and thick or broad: The building had a squat shape.
[13] seated or being in a squatting position; crouching.
[14] the act or fact of squatting.
[15] a squatting position or posture.
[16] a weightlifting exercise in which a person squats and then returns to an erect position while holding a barbell at the back of the shoulders.
[17] Nautical . the tendency of a vessel to draw more water astern when in motion than when stationary.
[18] Slang . doodly-squat.
[19] a place occupied by squatters.
[20] a person who occupies property or land to which he has no legal title
[21] (in Australia) (formerly) a person who occupied a tract of land, esp pastoral land, as tenant of the Crown a farmer of sheep or cattle on a large scale
[22] (in New Zealand) a 19th-century settler who took up large acreage on a Crown lease
[23] to rest in a crouching position with the knees bent and the weight on the feet
[24] to crouch down, esp in order to hide
[25] law (tr) to occupy land or property to which the occupant has no legal title
[26] weightlifting to crouch down to one's knees and rise to a standing position while holding (a specified weight) behind one's neck
[27] Also: squatty (ˈskwɒtɪ ) short and broad a squat chair
[28] a squatting position
[29] weightlifting an exercise in which a person crouches down and rises up repeatedly while holding a barbell at shoulder height
[30] a house occupied by squatters

Words related to Squatter

settler, pioneer, homesteader

Words nearby Squatter

squashable, squashy, squassation, squat, squat thrust, squatter, squatter sovereignty, squatter's right, squattocracy, squatty, squauwmish

Origin of Squatter

1250–1300; (v.) Middle English squatten < Old French esquater, esquatir, equivalent to es- ex-1 + quatir < Vulgar Latin *coactīre to compress, equivalent to Latin coāct(us ), past participle of cōgere to compress (co- co- + ag(ere ) to drive + -tus past participle suffix) + -īre infinitive suffix; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.; (adj.) Middle English: in a squatting position, orig., past participle of the v.

Other words from Squatter

squat·ter·dom , noun
squat·ly , adverb
squat·ness , noun

Word origin for Squatter

C13: from Old French esquater , from es- ex- 1 + catir to press together, from Vulgar Latin coactīre (unattested), from Latin cōgere to compress, from co- + agere to drive

Synonyms for Squatter

settler, homesteader, pioneer, illegal tenant