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The word squat, squatter or squatting can refer to:

• A squat is a kind of sitting position.
• Squatting (pastoral) is a term from Australian history, referring to the action of a person (the squatter) who occupied a large tract of Crown Land in order to graze livestock.
• Squatter (game), a popular Australian board game about managing such a sheep-station.
• Squatter's rights, referring to the legal term adverse possession
• Squatting is a term for inhabiting an abandoned or unused building or plot of land without owning it; a person squatting is known as a squatter, and the house or building occupied by squatters is known as a squat.
• Cybersquatting refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder.
• A species of Flanimal from the book More Flanimals by Ricky Gervais
• A squat toilet is a type of toilet where the user squats rather than sits on a seat.
• Squat (exercise), a lower-body exercise in strength and conditioning. It is a compound, multi-joint movement completed typically in the frontal plane without the use of a machine. Variations include the back squat, front squat, split squat, and single-leg squat. All variations may be completed with barbells, dumbbells, or with only the body weight of the exerciser. The squat may be modified to work within the needs of the health professional for physical therapy, athletic training, sport-specific training, or general health and fitness.
• In slang, squat is a term which can mean "of little or no value", as in "this computer isn't worth squat."
• Squat is the alternate name of the titular character in Scott Adams's comic Plop: The Hairless Elbonian.
• Squat (shipping term), used to describe a number of hydrodynamic phenomena.
• Squats (Warhammer 40,000) are a race in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
• Diddly-Squat means nothing. Like, "I owe you diddly squat!"
• Squatting attack, in Computer Science, is a kind of attack involving shared synchronization objects.

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