A phrase constantly trotted out by the media, it suggests that anyone under the age of 25 spends their days crouched over a laptop, disengaged with reality.
At the crease he holds himself with a crouched, dense, burrowing intensity, before punching at balls with the sudden anger of a caged rat.
He was photographed in Parliament Square "hefting a lump of rock" and had "crouched down in the doorway of the nearby supreme court and tried to set fire to a bundle of newspapers against the wooden doors" but was dissuaded and "scampered away".
They would be thanked for their efforts during 11 energetic days and three uncomfortably crouched minutes with an evening of performances by Scots Deacon Blue, Dougie Maclean, Prides and, later, a barnstorming set by Kylie Minogue, to mark the handover to the Gold Coast in Australia which will host the Games in four years.
Many photographers now own an expertly positioned hide, which can guarantee sightings of specific species for amateurs – who pay up to £300 for a day crouched in it.
Jonathan Eig's account of how Gehrig bravely endured this terrible illness is moving even now, especially the slugger's tearful description of himself as "the luckiest man on the face of the earth .During most of his playing career, Gehrig crouched in the shadow of Babe Ruth, both in and out of the ballpark.
Crouched under a rostrum in 1933, he watched brownshirts and blackshirts at a rally.
They crouched behind shields at the junction of Beijing Road and the Ramoche temple side-street.
He clenched his fists, jutted his chin, crouched, sprang and gesticulated wildly.
The sleeve of "Madcap" showed a naked girl in attendance there had been any number of those but Mr Barrett oblivious to her, his face masked by long hair and mascara, crouched shivering on the floor.Cambridge, where he had learned to play banjo and had proudly covered his first guitar with mirror-discs, seemed the best place to retreat to.
Before dumbstruck spectators, Mr Benzien stepped from his seat, crouched over a volunteer, and began to demonstrate.One member of the audience was Tony Yengeni, a black man whom Mr Benzien had once tortured for being a suspected terrorist.
