crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs

I squatted down in front of him

unlawfully occupy an uninhabited building or settle on a piece of land

eight families are squatting in the house

short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide

he was muscular and squat

a squat grey house

a squatting position

a building occupied by people living in it without the legal right to do so

a basement room in a North London squat

I didn't know squat about writing plays