Noun: (BS moshup of hick and hillbilly) They generally consider ‘townies’ only slightly better than tourists, and don’t count folks as townies til they’ve lived there at least five years. Gutted & skinned their 1st small mammal by the age of ten. When at public events, males tend to wear their local uniform – whatever combination of cowboy boots, hats, denim & bigotry is endemic to the region. This is the stereotype which is ‘ironically’ referenced when hipsters style themselves for Sunday BBQ at places like Acme, the Bottom of the Hill, Zeitgeist, and your backyard.
The hickabilly vibe was so thick out on the porch, I wasn't sure if I'd have to gnaw my own arm off to escape, or if I'd be tossed to the curb to the cries of "Utlander!"
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”