mat

1. (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.Examples: "Be careful now to keep the Doors and Windows of your Conservatories well matted"transitive

2. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.Examples: "And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair."intransitive

1. (video games slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of material.Examples: "I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped."; "Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so."; "While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials."abbreviationalt-ofclippingin-pluralslang

1. (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.

1. (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).Examples: "A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's"."abbreviationalt-ofdatedslang

1. (printing) Clipping of matrix.abbreviationalt-ofclipping