n. A stew or soup made from left overs or from the last bits of food in the pantry. The stuff you make when you don't have enough food to create a decent meal so you throw what you do have in to a pot and add water and hope it tastes good and makes meals that satisfy you until you get paid and can afford to buy more food.
Cooper "damn I'm so hungry. Shit, all I have to eat is some frozen corn and some stinky potatoes. I guess I'll have to whip up some make due stew again"
Cooper "Hey baby, how bout comin' over tonight for dinner and a dip in the hot tub"
Betty "What are you cookin'?"
Cooper "I got some make due stew on the stove yo.. Its yummy"
Betty "pft, fuck that shit dude"
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.”