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A grudgeband is a devoted husband and father working around the clock to maintain the lifestyle of his Parkie wife and children. Grudgebands could put in a short 40 hour week with significantly less stress if they lived in Plano but his family prefers the Park Cities. A grudgeband could care less where he lives because the intense travel and 13 hour days leave no time to enjoy his home or community.

Grudgebands are married to highly educated women who had paying jobs before the internet really caught on. Though their wives have an e-mail address, they don’t know how to attach documents and always say the “www” part before giving a web address.

Grudgebands are powerful in the business world but when given the rare opportunity to show up at home, check their freedom at the door. His wife has signed him up to move heavy items for a charity event she leads while he’s at the office.

Though he deeply respects her role, he’s grown tired of her filibuster about the difficulty of taking care of the kids while he lives a glamorous life downtown. He secretly fantasizes about the day he’ll scream so loud the neighbors can hear, “How hard can it be, you have a nanny, a housekeeper and no job.”
The grudgeband lost his biggest client but his wife still donated a load of cash to charity and remodeled the kitchen.
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grudgebaby 

Noun denoting the offspring conceived by a married woman while her husband is away for a period of months or years; e.g., at war or in the joint.
Moe: I don't understand how my wife had a baby a month ago. I mean, I'd been away for two years!

Joe: Well, Moe, that kid's a grudgebaby. Somebody had it in for you.
grudgebaby by Ernest Peabody August 2, 2006
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Grudgewank 

Commonly used in fandom related communities such as those in Livejournal, grudgewank is when one holds a constant grudge on someone that did mean things to them on the Internet in the past, and urges to degrade them as publicly as possible.
Looks like someone's got a grudgewank on the mods here.
Grudgewank by Dakkiyura July 29, 2009

grudgenda 

noun - gruh-jen-duh - A portmanteau (combined word) of grudge and agenda. A combination of a grudge that develops into an action or course of action(s). A grudge that becomes a roadmap for someone to take actions to resolve their resentment.
Her resentment developed into a course of action and thus became her grudgenda.
grudgenda by nu_words July 13, 2016

Grudgebank 

A place in all of our hearts and minds that we store our grudges against those that deserve it.
Dude your best man hit on your bride. Well, I did it to him. I think he opened up his grudgebank.
Grudgebank by MightyMongo January 20, 2025
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
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
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
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026