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flex

A slang verb that means "to show off"
She loves to flex on social media, posting photos of her latest luxury vacation that make us all a bit jealous!
by Emotional Cruiser November 14, 2025
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Silent Flexing

When someone doesn’t brag, doesn’t show off, doesn’t even try, but still ends up making everyone else feel under-leveled just by existing. It’s the kind of natural aura that says, “I’m not trying to impress you… But you’re impressed anyway.”
“Bro walked into class with messy hair and no effort, and suddenly the whole room went quiet. That’s silent flexing.”
by minghaochihiro November 26, 2025
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Prison Flex

Prison Flex: An abundance of high-status items hoarded in prison to display prestige and comfort, including luxury trainers, the latest smartphones (such as the newest iPhone), multiple bottles of shampoo or shower gel, premium tobacco, branded clothing, electronics like hi-fi systems and TVs, and commissary items like noodles and sweets in abundance.
Lee: Bruv, I was watching this YouTube video, and this prisoner had a massive TV, and proper top-notch trainers! He had more food than I've got at home!
Frank: Prison flex is all well and good, bruv, but the real flex is freedom!
Lee: Init, bruv! LOL.
by Jamie Cheese December 20, 2025
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Butterfly Flex

A soft, whimsical, psychologically crushing flex performed by a kept woman with a healthcare job who technically works very hard but is also extremely, unmistakably comfortable.

This flex happens when adult money meets middle-school energy.

Typical scenario: she shows up to her nursing job in a luxury SUV that doubles as a mobile spa, clocks out for lunch, and cocoons herself inside wearing a wildly unnecessary $300 coat “because hospitals are cold.” Lunch is eaten in silence. Massage seats on. Heat perfect. World muted. Meanwhile, coworkers are fighting over the microwave and a sad yogurt.

What elevates it to a butterfly flex:
• Luxury used purely for comfort, not status
• Zero bragging, zero posting, zero explanation
• A visible bratty, 12-year-old attitude about it (“I’m comfy 😌”)
Facial expressions so smug and content they might as well have subtitles
• Complains about work while being massaged by a $90k chair

The power of the butterfly flex is that it’s not aggressive. It’s not loud. It’s adorable, unserious, and devastating. The energy is less “boss babe” and more “preteen who just discovered heated seats and is never shutting up about it—internally.
She’s a nurse, wrapped in a $300 coat, eating lunch in her Lincoln Navigator with the massage seats on, making little faces like ‘this is nice’ without saying a word. That’s not showing off—that’s a butterfly flex.”
by CRM-114 December 30, 2025
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9/11 Flex

Boasting about your physical or emotional proximity to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Did you hear what David did at Jared's wedding last weekend? Jared's cousins were talking about how they used to go to Pulse nightclub all the time and David 9/11 flexed on them by working in that he was looking out the window at school when he saw the plane hit the First Tower.
by ShaolinPeesh January 5, 2026
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9/11 Flex

Boasting about your physical or emotional proximity to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Did you hear what David did at Jared's wedding last weekend? Jared's cousins were talking about how they used to go to Pulse nightclub all the time and David 9/11 flexed on them by working in that he was looking out the window at school when he saw the plane hit the First Tower.
by ShaolinPeesh January 5, 2026
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Flex Officer

A little bitch of a CO ( Correctional Officer) that is constantly found underneath the desks of his/her superiors.
The Flex Officer gets to Flex on all the other correctional officers because he/she "knows" that they are better than everyone.
The Flex Officer can get away with almost anything... depending on how long they can hold their breath underneath that desk, and depending on how much they cry
"unfair".
Being a Flex Officer you will usually only do half of the job he/she is suppose to do, and expects applause from everyone.Their superiors usually consist of a Daddy Captain, Mommy Lieutenant, or Uncle Lieutenant.
Hey CO, why are you staying late?
Flex Officer said he was not allowed to be mandated.
by BigDaddyBear53 April 10, 2025
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