A mouse mat is the British English term for what Americans call a mouse pad — the flat surface you slide your computer mouse across for better control and comfort. Whether it's a plain foam rectangle or a giant desk-covering gaming slab with RGB lighting, the concept is the same: a dedicated surface that keeps your mouse accurate and your wrist happy. Totally standard vocabulary in the UK; completely interchangeable with mouse pad elsewhere.
My mouse mat was so old and worn that the cursor kept drifting whenever I hit the edge.
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(UK) A mouse pad.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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