squat
- noun
- /skwɑt/
- Slang
- I got men out with injuries, and they're short-handed. "I don't know squat about deep mine work," Bandicut pointed out.
- diddly squat
- know squat
- get squat
No, due process doesn't mean squat if the final decision of the court isn't executed.
- No, due process doesn't mean squat if the final decision of the court isn't executed.
- So our families of Americans who died there aren't getting squat, but we are paying Taliban families for basically dying while attacking us?
Examples
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If we don't, we won't get squat.
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They don't mean squat.
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The ability to imagine something proves squat as far as building it goes.
Blog text (11) -
Millions of dollars of funding, and nobody around this dump can draw worth squat.
Fiction book (2000) -
No big deal, squat, little bit of achiness, nothing crazy.
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Nobody knows squat about our homies up there.
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You've been going for a month and you have found squat.
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But they don't do squat.
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You don't know squat.
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After working for hours, I realized I was getting paid jack squat for my efforts.
Synonyms
Not anything of interest or value
Something worthless or untrue that people say to you
A very small, worthless amount people talk about in negative sentences
The state of having no value, result, or importance
Something that has no value or use
Not anything or zero
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
A very small amount, almost nothing
Nothing at all
A very small amount, almost nothing
Nothing at all
A very small or worthless amount
Something of little or no worth
A very small amount that is almost nothing
A very small amount or nothing at all
A very small amount or nothing at all
Antonyms
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Etymology
Squat as slang for 'nothing' likely grew from the idea of being very low or having very little, so a helpful way to remember is to think of 'not squat' as 'not even a little', which is why it means 'nothing'.