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馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji
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What does 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji mean?
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� displays a wire-mesh wastebasket. It is commonly used to represent literal and figurative trash and garbage. The emoji is also sometimes used to convey various negative feelings, such as worthlessness or failure (e.g., feeling like trash).
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is occasionally used to refer to basketball (and combined with the Basketball emoji 馃弨) due the emoji鈥檚 resemblance to the net of a basketball hoop as well sharing the word basket. The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is also combined with the聽贵颈谤别听emoji 馃敟 to represent the slang expression dumpster fire.
Where does 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji come from?
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� was approved under Unicode 7.0 in 2014. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles a silver or grey wire-mesh wastebasket. Depending on the platform, the wastebasket may be stylized or depicted realistically. The Apple and Twitter versions of the emoji depict the wastebasket as seen from the side. On all other major platforms, the wastebasket is viewed from an angle that shows the opening at the top.
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is often used to refer to actual trash or junk. It is also very common to use the emoji alongside metaphorical uses of 鈥渢rash鈥� or 鈥済arbage鈥� as in feeling like trash or treating someone like trash. To this end, the emoji is combined with the聽贵颈谤别听emoji 馃敟 as a pictorial representation of dumpster fire, a slang expression meaning “a situation, person, or thing that is disastrous and out of control.” In 2016, the American Dialect Society voted聽dumpster fire as its 亚洲网紅露点 of the Year, noting the prominent use of the emoji sequence 馃棏馃敟 on social media to represent the phrase that year.
On Twitter especially, the Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is often used to refer to basketball, often alongside the Basketball emoji 馃弨. This is likely due to the fact the emoji highly resembles a basketball net when used on the platform as well as as the fact that they share the word聽basket.
Examples of 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji
Who uses 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji?
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is often used to refer to actual and metaphorical trash.
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Be kind to Mother Earth 馃實 and each other. Stop littering And don't forget to recycle鈾伙笍 馃毊馃棏锔�— Dawn (@Dawn1900)
Mcdonald's new chicken sandwich is 馃棏锔�
— Chuck Croneberger (@CRONEBEC)
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— Tori Sisolak (@llovelyLaine)
The Wastebasket emoji 馃棏锔� is also used to refer to basketball, especially on Twitter.
I will dunk a basketball by the end of this year 馃棏锔忊浌锔忦煉�
— Diem (@shirosilk)
Fact: The chances of having a perfect March Madness bracket are 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808
May the odds be in your favor 馃弨馃棏锔�
— Kirsten Krull (@KirstenKrull)
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This is not meant to be a formal definition of 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 馃棏锔� Wastebasket emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.