pat

1. (knitting) Clipping of pattern.Examples: "Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]"abbreviationalt-ofclipping

1. (slang) Upper-class, nobby.slang

1. (slang, possibly offensive) An Irish person.Examples: "I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden, […]"; "The stereotypes of the Irish were more negative. Irish men, the “Pats,” were seen as “always drunk, eternally fighting, lazy, and shiftless.”"Synonyms: Paddyoffensivepossiblyslang

1. (American football) Initialism of point after touchdown (“extra point”).abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

2. (education, Alberta) Initialism of provincial achievement test.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

3. (electrical engineering, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) Initialism of portable appliance testing.AustraliaIrelandNew-ZealandUKabbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

4. (networking) Initialism of port address translation.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

5. (programming) Initialism of protocol associated type.Examples: "Protocols are abstract as they are, but with PATs, you’re making your protocols generic, which makes your code even more abstract and exponentially complex."abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

6. (computing) Initialism of personal access token.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable

1. (Quebec) Abbreviation of Pointe-aux-Trembles: a municipality of Quebec, Canada.Quebecabbreviationalt-of