Usually used to describe the act of intentionally gaining excessive weight in order to cultivate muscle mass later during weight training
In an office enviroment, it is used to describe an abnormally extreme amount of trash employees are generated daily, an unusual volume of food being consumed and discarded that is so extreme every delivery driver in town is showing up once or twice daily; the opposite of an office Weight Loss Challenge
Manager: This year H.R. is implementing Bulking Season rather than trying to push another Weight Loss Challenge on us. Feel free to bring your own personal full-size fridge, a box of trash bags, and a can of air freshener. Go Big Or Go Home, people!
Employee: No way we can beat those women in H.R. I heard they're so large that they can't see their own office chair without a mirror.
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.”