A type of brag or status signaling behavior whereby someone highlights something that is generally shameful or embarrassing.

Can include things like failures (a failure resume), childhood hardship, poverty, illness or imperfect physical conditions, etc.

This type of brag is generally shunned or punished by audiences generally UNLESS the braggart is very high in status - in which case its often rewarded.
All those prestigious Harvard students are now making stigma brags by posting their "failure resumes" on linked-in and getting lots of likes. If they were from Boston community college then that wouldn't get them any attention at all!
by Sqeezle April 11, 2023
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The perfect word to set your friends up to be destroyed by a joke. Similar to ligma
“Hey Bro did you hear about that new Stigma?”

“No, what stigma?”

“Stigma balls in your mom”
by swaggirl January 3, 2022
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Stigma balls
John: Hey Kelly, stigma.
Kelly: Stigma?
John: Stigma balls!!
by Chammanthi vasu September 13, 2021
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