A game played by three or more people generally in a basement and late at night. Players bounce a tennis ball off various objects: floor, ceiling, chairs, other players, ect, and into a small trash can. When one player makes a shot the next player must make the same shot. If that player misses they get a letter, and if a player spells out RATCHET they are out. Last player in wins.
Person 1: Do you want to play ratchetball tonight bro?
Ratchetball. (Pronouciation: Ratch·et·Ball, noun)
A game played on a four-walled court with a short-handled, strung racket and a ball. Typically played by unruly, obnoxious ratchet...bitches...Street rules and neighborhood rivalries apply. Spectators are usually found in large groups, holding earrings and evading flying tumbleweeve.
Civilized human being 1: "Hey, what's going on over there on the racquetball court?"
Civilized human being 2: "Dude...I think that's Ratchetball"
Civilized human being 1: "It looks far too ratchet for me to comprehend. What has this world come to?"
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.
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.”