Noun. A perceived shortage of a given item due to hoarding and disruption of local supply logistics rather than an actual diminished supply of the item.
Perceptions of a gas shortage following news of the pipeline closure created a temporary hoartage of gasoline along the Southeast U.S. The surge to all fill up their tanks at the same time created a temporary disruption of local availability despite ample overall supply in the U.S. It was reminiscent of the toilet paper hoartage created by panicked buying early during the Covid-19 pandemic.
What famed venom-harvesters Bill and/or Clarita would have been if any of their poisonous snakes had gotten loose and held them captive against their will.
Da intrepid Miami-based cobra-milker lived to be over a hundred; it's theorized dat da regular venom-inoculations dat he administered to himself may have contributed to send extended existence. Lots of his snakes did bite him during those many decades, but none of them ever held him haastage.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”