English Dictionary

squatter

/ˈskwɒtə/

noun

One who squats, sits down idly. / (Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land. / (Philippines) A poor vagrant; An illegal informal settler; hobo; beggar; One suffering from extreme poverty.

The squatter refused to leave the abandoned house.

意味（1）

One who squats, sits down idly.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

意味（2）

(Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land.

While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.

意味（3）

(Philippines) A poor vagrant; An illegal informal settler; hobo; beggar; One suffering from extreme poverty.

意味（4）

(Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.

Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred,

Down came policemen, one, two and three.

'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag?

Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred, Down came policemen, one, two and three. 'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag? You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.'

意味（5）

(informal) A squat toilet.

All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters.