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Asian squat en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A position assumed by bending at the knees with one's feet flat on the ground and knees spread apart.
   • My mother was doing the unnervingly uncouth Asian squat—a deep, flamboyant squat, feet flat, weight fully on heels. I could do it too, quite easily, in fact, and hold the position for a long time. 2020, Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American Daughter, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 77:
   • Bring chest forward, settle hips very deep, almost assuming an Asian Squat position. Look forward, preferably not in a mirror. One explosive, highly technical movement now occurs as you whip the barbell overhead and jump under it, landing in a full Asian Squat holding the barbell directly overhead (bottom position of an Overhead Squat). 1999, Steve Ilg, The Winter Athlete: Secrets of Wholistic Fitness for Outdoor Performance, Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, →ISBN, page 428:
   • I thanked him and dropped down into an Asian squat alongside the Cortina's left fender. 1989, Robert Sam Anson, War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina, New York, NY: Touchstone, →ISBN, page 278:
   • She assumed the Asian squat, feet splayed, sucking on her cigarette. 2009, Christopher G. Moore, Paying Back Jack, New York, NY: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 178:

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Translations (9)

cmn 亞洲蹲 /亚洲蹲 (position) · ja アジアスクワット (position) · ja 便所座り (position) · vi ngồi xổm Châu Á (position) · ko 쪼그려 앉기 (position) · ja うんこ座り (position) · ja ヤンキー座り (position) · fr squat asiatique (position) · ko 아시안 스쿼트 (position)