Mantressed 

A Mantress is someone who spends most of their time in bed. Half man half mattress. This person sleeps, eats and often smokes in bed. If you do the above you become mattressed.

Last night I was absolutely mantressed

Mantressed by North&J June 12, 2016

going to the mattresses 

Prepare for a battle or adopt a warlike stance.

In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts.

Ordinarily we would want to verify such stories before publishing them here as part of a phrase derivation. In this case though it isn't really important. The meaning of the phrase turns on the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn't well known outside of the USA and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos television series, to mean 'preparing for battle'. Whether or not the stories that originated it are true doesn't alter the fact that the screenwriters of those films used them in that context.

"That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinkin'a going to the mattresses already."

Mainly popularized by the film, "The Godfather."

going to the mattresses by icanjuggle2 March 17, 2010

going to the mattresses 

Going to war with a rival clan or family. Used in the mafia. Its when a mafia family sends someone out to get someone apartments and some mattresses for the soldiers of the family to sleep on while they hide out in saftey, waiting for a call to do something.

Sonnys thinkin' about going to the mattresses already.

going to the mattresses by Patrick Palombo November 1, 2006

going to the mattresses 

to prepare for a protracted fight

From the movie "The Godfather":

CLEMENZA: That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinkin'a going to the mattresses already. We gotta find a spot over on the West Side

going to the mattresses by slugbait October 22, 2006

Hit The Matresses 

Often used by a mobster. "Hitting the matresses" is a term used during a mob-war. When two families or mobs are feuding, they battle it out by whackin' each other. "Hitting the matresses" is known as going into hiding. Usually finding an unknown, empty house, room, or appartment and sleeping on just a single matress.

It's getting rough, Sonny's already thinkin' of hittin' the matresses and we've only whacked a guy.

We need to hit the matresses before this shit gets outta' hand.

Hit The Matresses by TonyTheBoss June 18, 2009

mantress

A mattress composed of one or more human males stacked together.

We were so drunk that we didn't realize that we fell asleep on the mantress

mantress by rawrmonster February 3, 2009

Mattressdango 

Sex (often rampant) involving a top hat and umbrella.

Sometimes you have to use mandango to do the mattressdango.

Mattressdango by Robert S May 13, 2006