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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.
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 by D.S. Credito March 12, 2015
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Escape the matrix 

We need to escape the matrix stop the 9-5 jobs stop controlment. be yourself
Top G helps us escape the matrix
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Matrix Juice 

Y’all drinking Matrix Juice?
Dead conio want some Matrix Juice.
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Some Matrix shit 

When someone performs a reflexive feat that seems to defy physics.
Guy 1 throws a lighter point blank range at Guy 2, who catches it without even thinking.

Guy 1: "Damn, Guy 2, that was some Matrix shit"!

Or....

Guy drops his bottle of Gatorade but kicks it back up to his hands before it hits the ground. That's some Matrix shit.

The Matrix 

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix really is. You have to see it for yourself.
Morpheus: "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix really is. You have to see it for yourself."

Neo: "Woah!"
The Matrix by Shay42 February 12, 2005

matrix shot 

1. In The Matrix, when Neo does a side way jump when firing his gun.

2. In Dodgeball, an imitation of that, but throwing a ball instead of a shooting a gun.
Brian has mad skillz when he gets people out with a matrix shot.
matrix shot by Fargas October 26, 2006
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