Shabby Chic

Something (maybe someone, i.e., Joan Collins) that's rather worn out/tattered yet has a touch of understated class.

Example of a shabby chic attire:

Slightly ratty but damn gorgeous Prada handbag, with a pair of Vivian Westwood slacks, and perhaps some frayed cashmere sweater.

Shabby Chic by Cameron Stewart-Wilson II November 14, 2003

Shabby Chic

A "style" invented by paint manufacturers to promote painting things then rubbing most of it back off, and people with no money who don't mind living with old crap battered furniture.

I love your shabby chic furniture, it looks so.... old and crap!

Shabby Chic by TimmyRaa August 18, 2014

Shabby Chic Slut 

Noun - A girl who embodies the shabby chic style in either dress or artistic pursuits who expresses it in a blatantly slutty fashion.

My shabby chic slut totally made me this vintage distressed collage of her breasts after she fucked me hard last night.

Shabby Chic Slut by Rainbow_Kitten7 July 29, 2018

shabby chicanery

Hybrid term melding "shabby chic" and "chicanery."

shabby chic:
a style using worn and deteriorated items to achieve an elegant overall effect

chicanery:
trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

Shabby chicanery:
Constant failed attempts at using second-hand items in one's home decor to achieve a look of false elegance. Result is invariably much more Salvation Army than Apres-La-Guerre.

Another broke down La-Z-Boy? Enough with the shabby chicanery, already.

shabby chicanery by Tom Terranova August 17, 2007

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