" matrix "

 [ "matrix" ]

1: a term describing a controlled environment or situation in which people act or behave in ways that conform to roles pre-determined by a powerful person(s) who decides how the world is supposed to function. Living on or within a matrix may also be referred to as "on the grid", with greater flexibility and choice available to those who venture off-the-grid.

  * e.g.,  ... After years of living a boring life, working 9-to-5 on the East Coast matrix, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he traded his car for a bicycle and started earning a living with his acoustic guitar. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a battery.

  * e.g.,  ... NO ONE CAN BE TOLD WHAT THE MATRIX IS, YOU HAVE TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF. k. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: Verb:To dodge something w/ superhuman ability.

  * e.g.,  ... "Dude, he threw that ball at me and i like matrixed it." 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: a massive computer program used in a movie of the same title, serving the purpose of controlling the human race, ironically not that far from the truth...

  * e.g.,  ... "Hey, you think we're in a matrix?"  

 [ "matrix" ]

1: A rectangular array of numbers or expressions. The plural is 'matrices'. An n x m matrix has n rows and m columns.

  * e.g.,  ... Find the determinant of this matrix. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1:  To spend a significant portion of a day or even a week watching without pause back to back episodes from multiple seasons of a single television series, replacing the experience of one's own reality and resulting in lingering effects on one's consciousness, once the final episode has been watched. To re-set one's own immediate depressive state by immersing oneself in a mediated one (television, film, online social forum, amusement park, etc.) for an extended, but ultimately temporary, period of time.

  * e.g.,  ... Jan was in such a funk that she withdrew into her dorm room with a Costco carton of microwaveable popcorn to matrix on the complete seven seasons of Wire in the Blood, emerging three days later with a slight British accent and a less slight case of paranoia. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a battery.

  * e.g.,  ... the matrix pwned. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: VERB;

  * e.g.,  ... "Bitch, you just got matrixed by that hot girl." 

 [ "matrix" ]

2: When a guy and a girl hang out, one of them goes in for a kiss, and the other denies him or her by pulling his or her head away.

  * e.g.,  ... "Way to matrix that ugly chick bro." 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: to run so fast that your feet seem to disappear and you appear to run UP a wall

  * e.g.,  ... Brian matrixed around the room as he ran away from Shatisha with her love note from Dyquan. 

 [ "matrix" ]

1: Helping Verb.

  * e.g.,  ... "I went totally Matrix on that kid who tried to steal my cotton candy." 

 [ "matrix" ]

2: Usually combined with "go" in the present tense or "went" in the past tense to describe an unbelieveably cool or Matrix-style action. Sometimes involves quick reflexes (usually in dodging or blocking things), or violence.

  * e.g.,  ... "Dude, stop fucking around or I'll go Matrix on you."