Parlor Trick 

A practiced skill with very limited purpose or functionality. Used primarily to impress people, but usually only once.

That squirting-milk-out-your-eye thing he does is just a cheap parlor trick.

Parlor Trick by HeroSpirit August 23, 2017

parlor trick 

cheap magician trick

that guy dave from M.L.King High is now doing parlor tricks on the corner of lexington and fifth. what a chump.

parlor trick by amol May 1, 2004

Parlor trick 

Parlor trick (par-lour tr-ick)

The act of blowing meth filled clouds on one's penis. Typically used in a parTy setting/environment. (Verb)

I.e. ”Chris did a parlor trick on Ryan's fat cock"

Parlor trick by Trojan Prince February 14, 2020

parlor trick 

What da spider famously tried to play on da fly through verbal enticement --- i.e., inviting in said buzzy being with promises of fine and homey accommodations.

Even modern-day folks could take a lesson from Mary Howitt's early-1800's kiddie-poem --- there are always gonna be plenty of deceitful shysters around who will try all number of "parlor tricks" on you in an attempt to lure you into their "webs of deception", such as financial scams, empty promises of romance, false/exaggerated claims or destitution, etc.

parlor trick by QuacksO July 11, 2023

parler trick

The act of making Nazis disappear from conventional social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

After the November 2020 election, there was a mass exodus of right wingers from traditional social media in what appears to be the greatest Parler trick ever.

parler trick by Cashman73 November 9, 2020

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