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    National Sex Day

    National Sex Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on June 9th. It is dedicated to having sexual relations with someone else.
  2. Roll Tide

    Roll Tide is a phrase trademarked by the University of Alabama. It is a cheer used to rally fans of the college’s athletics teams, known as the Crimson Tide.
  3. English Words From The Pharaohs

    Most people recognize Ancient Greek and Latin as the primary donors to the English language. However, some of the most ancient words in English actually trace back to Ancient Egypt.  Distinct from the contemporary Egyptian Arabic spoken today, Ancient Egyptian is a unique Afro-Asiatic language that doesn’t really share similarities with other languages in the family (like Arabic, Hebrew, or Berber).   Its 5,000 year-old …

  4. 🔍 Left Pointing Magnifying Glass emoji and 🔎 Right Pointing Magnifying Glass emoji

    The left or right-pointing magnifying glass is used to suggest things like inquiry, curiosity, searching online, detective work, or just taking a closer look at something. Related words: 🕵 detective emoji 👁 eye emoji 🔬 microscope emoji
  5. 🆘 Squared SOS emoji

    Help! The squared SOS emoji cries out in an emergency, sometimes earnestly but often sarcastically. For those who don't know (no judgment) SOS is an internationally recognized distress signal in Morse code. Related words: 🚑 ambulance emoji…
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    ☺️ Smiling Face emoji

    The smiling emoji feels all warm and fuzzy inside. This emoji is used to express positive feelings, from happiness to gratitude to affection. Because of its rosy cheeks, some people use the emoji to convey mild…
  7. 🍲 Pot Food emoji

    Mmm ... pot of food emoji. 🤤 This tasty emoji is used for content related to eating and cooking, especially soups. It can also express that someone is hungry—or hangry. Related words: 😋 face savoring food emoji 🌭…
  8. 🧔 Bearded Person emoji

    The bearded person emoji marks content dealing with male facial hair and grooming, men's fashion and style, and beard culture more generally. (Yes, that's a thing.) The emoji also represent a middle-aged man or a certain…
  9. 💡 Electric Light Bulb emoji

    Eureka! Aha! While the electric light bulb emoji can stand for electric power and lighting, it often represents a sudden insight, knowledge, or thought in general—basically anything "bright" in the metaphorical sense. Related words: aha…
  10. 😬 Grimacing Face emoji

    We're gonna be honest with you: Even the dictionary can have a hard time putting things into words 😬. Like with this guy, grimacing face emoji, whose tone is just all over the place. It…
  11. 🤸‍♀️ Person Cartwheel emoji

    We're totally flipping out over the person doing cartwheel emoji 🤸. The emoji represents the sport of gymnastics, cheerleading, and physical fitness in general. Metaphorically, it suggests excitement and exuberance, as if "doing flips" or "flipping out," as…
  12. 🇦🇹 Flag For Austria emoji

    Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Von Trapp family. Schnitzel. So much schnitzel. These are just some of the things the flag for Austria emoji celebrates. You'll find 🇦🇹 whenever folks want to rep the country of Austria and…