Middle Trash 

Broadly denotes several divergent subcultures, most highly concentrated in college dormitories (or fraternities), indie rock concerts, and fixed gear bicycles. Bred out an almost brazen sense of immunity and entitlement, middle trash people sometimes joke that they live in a dirty house, binge drink and gorge on free samples because they are starving college students. This is usually stated with a smug irony, since their education is often well financed by parents or scholarships.

This excuse, or others that justify behavior that they would find reprehensible in those who didn't attend college or voted republican, is actually only invoked to defend a very small amount of middle trash behavior. This occurs because a surprising volume of wasteful fads, terrible bands, classist vitriol or noxious political doublespeak are integral to a proud self-image, often as someone outside the mainstream or simply smarter, more interesting and better than other people.

Finally, middle trash can also describe various exploitative and anti-nuanced appropriations, such as ironically flashing gang signs or wearing a kimono.

I went away for a week and the house reeks of garbage. My roommates are total middle-trash.

My friend just bought five hundred dollar wheels to go on his middle trash fixed gear.

I just didn't like that the Chappelle's show was so popular with the Middle Trash.

Middle Trash by Somefinds April 3, 2009

Upper Middle Trash 

People who are on their way up but are still stuck with poor white trash behavior. People with enough money to buy a new car but not enough for health insurance. Pimps who pretend they are business executives. Night club owners. Gap managers. The entire porn industry.

Central California is populated by Upper Middle Trash.

Upper Middle Trash by Ramy August 20, 2006

Middle Class Trash 

An individual who is self absorbed and disinterested in others situations simply because they can be. They can often be heard dismissing others opinions and beliefs simply because they don’t agree with them. They think they’re in a higher class than they really are.

This guy just walked into Panera and went straight to the front of the line, when someone tried to say something to him he let them know he was a preferred customer. I thought everyone had a Panera card, that guy is Middle Class Trash.

Middle Class Trash by Dr. Earl Pearl July 13, 2018

Grindset

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

jerb 

well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!

Them future folk took ouare jerbs!

jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005

Cheeks 

An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)

"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."

Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020

sans sheriff 

Lawless use of fonts or typography, with no regard to aesthetics or legibility

I'm putting this CV straight in the bin. Written totally sans sheriff.

sans sheriff by Jamarley July 3, 2019