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The Thrift

The Thrift is the ongoing search for amazing, kitschy, cool, outrageous, and inexplicable things at Thrift Stores (Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc.), yard sales, Government Auctions, Penny Saver newspapers, etc.

The Thrift is a never-ending journey, like life, where one special item may fill a particular need, but never completely Satisfies.

Basically, The Thrift is thrifting in a more universal way.
When I hit my thirties, I thought I was done searching through bales of clothing and pawnshops, always looking for the ultimate score, but THE THRIFT is a seductive mistress, and her siren-call could not be ignored.

I'll gladly keep my fifty cent copy of "Maggot Brain" over some re-mastered quadraphonic enhanced CD... the scratches add authenticity to the music and remind me of The Thrift and all her sweet mysteries.

That guy in the line ahead of me got that Eames chair just before me, the agony of The Thrift!
The Thrift by Unlearny February 28, 2009
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the thrift shop 

When a malnourished male teenager tries to have sexual intercourse with a virgin and the male proceeds to insert his penis into the female's vagina, takes the female's virginity and then cries afterwards because it hurt
Guy 1) Hey! Just had sex last night. The girl had her first time with me

Guy 2) The girl told me that you did The Thrift Shop to her. Lol

Guy 1) Fuck that hoe

showing them the thrift store 

What you tell your significant other what you're doing with an attractive person while you're actually cheating on your significant other, taking pictures of it, and secretly laughing at your idiot significant other for being such a trusting idiot.
I'm showing them the thrift store for his birthday. I'll be home later.

The Thrifters 

The Thrifters
noun;
A Sick ass band on the rise fast in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Thrifters live show is soo good "And They Call Her Miss Leading" is So sick i love the different melodies and syncopated rhythms...

It's Goin Down - One of THE BEST underground releases out of Cleveland or Ohio for any matter.

TheThristyGames 

An amazing streamer that drinks while playing video games, he might say stupid things but we love him for it.
TheThristyGames should do more games

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
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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