When as children, mainly in elementary/primary school two people really like each other, but were stopped by forces larger to them, such as coodies or cooties. Crush is the beginnings of 'like', 'like-like' or 'love'
It involved playing tiggy or tag, where the young confused male would be mean to girls, e.g. push her off swimming pool floatation devices, or throw rocks at.
This could lead to puppy love
little boy : she is my crush.. so im going to be mean to her
little girl : he's so mean to me, don't like him
Sarena : "OMG its Gab!! my primary crush!! I haven't seen you in so many years!" *glomp*
Gab : " ehh ... oh? OHHHH Linh Lam!! the first girl I ever liked, my primary crush! *glomp!*
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.”