matsquat
/ˈmætˌskwɒt/nounVerified NewThe informal claiming of a habitual spot in a fitness class, defended silently week after week.
Arrive ten minutes late and you discover the room's real floor plan: the bike by the mirror, the front-left mat, the position with sightlines to the instructor. Nobody assigned these places; everybody enforces them.
Etym. — mat + squat, using squat in the sense of occupying ground — the same verb the gym already uses for a lift, which is part of the joke.
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