Slat

Slat or slats may refer to:

Common meanings

• A type of window blind
• Leading-edge slats, on aircraft

Arts and entertainment

• A character in the American comic strip Abbie an' Slats
• Slats Grobnik, a character created by American newspaper columnist Mike Royko
• Slats, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio lion
• Slat, a work by American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra (born 1939)

SLAT

• AQM-127 SLAT (Supersonic Low-Altitude Target), a United States Navy target drone
• SLAT (Slow, Low, Aerial Target), a pejorative nickname for the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft
• SLAT (Systeme de Lutte Anti-Torpille), a naval anti-torpedo system—see for example FREMM multipurpose frigate
• Second Level Address Translation, a computer technology
• Software Liberty Association of Taiwan, a member of the Free Standards Group

People

• Slats Gill (1901–1966), American basketball and baseball head coach at Oregon State University
• Glenn Hardin (1910–1975), American hurdler, 1936 Olympic gold medalist
• Slats Long (1906–1964), American jazz clarinetist
• Glen Sather (born 1943), Canadian National Hockey League team president and former coach and general manager
• Boyan Slat (born 1994), Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and engineering student
• Michael Slater (born 1970), Australian television presenter and former cricketer
• Max "Slats" Zaslofsky (1925–1985), American National Basketball Association player and American Basketball Association coach

Other uses

• Slat, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
• A rarely used alternate name for a slash (/)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with slat
• All pages with titles containing slat
• Slet (disambiguation)
• Slit (disambiguation)
• Slot (disambiguation)
• Slut (disambiguation)