exclusive bar in east new york, brooklyn. also a phrase used to reply to text messages you are unsure of how to answer, are drunk, and are shrugging and hanging out with a dog. first you send the shrug and dog emoji, and then you shrug dog.
by st.misto June 2, 2018
To dismiss any conceivable level of accountability for incompetence, laziness, or simply being terrible at one's job on account of there being a global pandemic in 2020 through 2022 referred to as COVID-19. When questioned as to the meaning of the incompetence, laziness, or being terrible at the said job, the personal in question will offer a shrug of the shoulders while meekly muttering "covid."
Frank was having trouble finding mulch at Walmart but when he asked the employee where he might find it, the worker merely rolled his eyes and muttered "covid," thereby executing a covid shrug with perfect grace...
Person 1 (ordering at Wendy's): "Excuse me, there's a problem with my order."
Wendy's cashier: "whaaaa..."
Person 1: "I ordered a chicken sandwich with fries and a Coke and it appears you brought me Taco Bell."
Wendy's cashier: (offering a covid shrug) "Oh....***shrugs*** covid..."
Person 1 (ordering at Wendy's): "Excuse me, there's a problem with my order."
Wendy's cashier: "whaaaa..."
Person 1: "I ordered a chicken sandwich with fries and a Coke and it appears you brought me Taco Bell."
Wendy's cashier: (offering a covid shrug) "Oh....***shrugs*** covid..."
by BostonRarr August 4, 2023
Whenever one shrugs so deeply as to place their head between their shoulders, and lower arms up , with the hands pointing outward yet the fingers are curled, and eyes are rolled upward, a smile on one's face.
by dfasHfjasbufeiu July 25, 2004
Johnny gave his teacher an MJ shrug after he got an A on his Trig test.
Ryan hit the game winning shot and turned to his coach and gave him a MJ shrug.
Ryan hit the game winning shot and turned to his coach and gave him a MJ shrug.
by PESwag December 2, 2011
a non verbal behavior exhibited on days when the struggle is real and ones brain is having extensive difficulty addressing or solving a given situation. The strug-shrug is a differentiated from a normal shrug by a lackadaisical shoulder movement up then down, often accompanied by a blank or confused stare.
After consecutive 16 hour work days, Shawna, when asked about an approaching campaign launch, replied to the best of her ability by giving a strug-shrug.
by aTiredBrain June 16, 2015
Considered by many to be Ayn Rand's greatest work, Atlas Shrugged is a long, pro-capitalist novel in which Ayn Rand sought to portray the ideal man and his effect on society.
"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?"
"I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
"I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
by 142857 March 26, 2005
The movement of your eyebrows going up after someone asks you a question you can't answer; used if you can't use your shoulders
by SladinForever October 25, 2009