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Back in my day... 

The prefix of a phrase uttered by elders and adults describing what it was like to do something in their own past.
Old Man Ulysses: Back in my day, we would look up Webster's Dictionary instead of Urban Dictionary. No biased information there!
Pizza Guy: WAT 0_0
Wordington-Chan: Gee, I didn't know that. Thanks for the enlightment~! ^w^
Old Man Ulysses: You're welcome, lass. Anyways, back in my day, instead of ordering pizza, we made our own on our farms.
Pizza Guy: WAT ):<
Old Man Ulysses: Back in my day...
Pizza Guy: WATEVER (Yeah, I know, nobody used emoticons in their own dialogues.)

back in my day 

The way an old man tells you to stop whining about shit that people back in their day did differently
Old Man: Back in my day, we didnt have toilet paper, we just wiped our asses with leaves

Young Man: Holy Shit, that must've sucked ass.
back in my day by GrapeRape69 October 16, 2014

Back in my day 

A phrase typically used by old people to criticize younger people or to justify themselves.
Kids today are always on their phones, but back in my day we were only allowed to play with a wooden stick!
Back in my day by kho25 March 6, 2022

Back in my day 

Is when a person above the age of 60 says that something was harder back then.
Justin: It's so hard to walk to school everyday.

Old person: Back in my day I had to walk over Mt. Everest to get to school.

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
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.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
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