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Definitions by TheCageByRuthMinskySender,3

Noun
Yiddish
1. a rag
2. anything shabby
3. (Clothing & Fashion) (modifier) clothes: a jocular use the shmatte trade
"Can I use that shmattas to clean this?"
"We're poor now so we must wear shmattas"
"That shmattas looks good on you!"

Another word for shmattas is shmatte