(n): a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
(n): someone who settles on land without right or title
(n): someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
squat
(adj): short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
(adj): vs. tall), little -- (low in stature; not tall
(adj): having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
(adj): vs. high) -- (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
Fight the power!
We still have the squattocracy in the western distict - remember Malcolm Fraser? Life wasn't meant to be easy.
Archaic meaning, Australia: a grazier, or station (ranch) owner. (The meaning of the word changed later in the twentieth century to mean a person who occupies or resides at a property illegally.)
Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred
Down jumped the troopers, one, two, three:
"Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me."
--A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda"