0 past simple and past participle of crouch
1 to bend your knees and lower yourself so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly:
One might have worked upright, with a 'loose-eye', for instance, while another might have crouched and crawled on its belly while deploying its 'collie-eye'.
The woman in the foreground evinces another telling gesture: she is crouched down.
Rickards crouched forward, his huge hand cradling the whisky glass.
During gait, a slightly crouched posture may be appropriate compensation for the destabilizing effects of reduced heel-strike.
I ran behind the bar, crouched down by the record shelves, searching - no, not that one - what could it be?
The eager boy-men are crouched over its curling exhaust formed by the electric-car track,34 with the electrical toy the satirical equivalent of the electronic countermeasures in the real bomber.
It was horrible and wet crouched down, and somehow you had to let them know where you were by quietly calling out or holding a small torch.
They must eat crouched on their bunks in their cells.
