The monetary condition of living in the US State of Oregon due to high taxes, food and property costs. Usually characterized by not having much money at the end of the day, but having abundant pedestrian walkways and crosswalks to take you to a really clean park that you can go smell the roses and cry in.
Person: Hey! I heard you got a new job and moved out to Oregon.
ME: Yeah, I sure did! Things are looking up for me.
Person: You think you could send me some cool Oregon shit?
ME: Nah, man. Can't afford it. Oregon got me pooregon.
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.
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.”