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A slow, work-related mental and emotional decline that happens when you’re underused and underchallenged—stuck in routine, unstimulating tasks (often admin-heavy), leading to intellectual boredom, professional stagnation, and unfulfillment. It’s often described as the opposite to burnout: instead of being overwhelmed by overload, you’re worn down by underutilisation of your skills and lack of meaningful growth.
'I'm not burning out, I'm rusting out'

See: Fitzsimons, S., & Smith, D. S. (2025). ‘I’m not burning out, I’m rusting out’: Investigating the causes of rustout in teacher educators in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 1211.
Rustout by anonymous December 15, 2025
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Rustbutt 

A gay man's period.

Once a month, for usually 3-5 days, all gay men experience rustbutt, when the accumulated semen and blood from a month of butt sex is shed from the anal lining, and comes out as a rust-colored fluid.
This totally hot guy wants to come home with me tonight, but I've got mad rustbutt :(
Rustbutt by Rabbi Rusty December 18, 2015
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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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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
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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
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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
Word of the Day on May 20, 2026