Emoji dictionary or bearded person emoji [beer-did pur-suh n ih-moh-jee] What does 🧔 mean? 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 burly, rugged, sexy manliness—if you're into the whole lumbersexual look. Related words: 💈barber pole emoji soul patch 🦁 lion face emoji neckbeard no-shave november What's hot Karen simp stonks ligma Where does come from? Examples of Growing out my beard 🧔 @21otani, May, 2018 You know, as a bearded man, putting honey on your pizza just isn’t worth it. 🧔 🍕 @jordanmayland, December, 2017 It's official my beard is the most proper man beard Ive ever had. I'm gonna go chop some wood now, then wrestle a bear and maybe rescue some cats from trees & stuff. Grrrr 🐻 🧔 @DangerousdanUK, December, 2017 SEE MORE EXAMPLES Popular now Karen simp stonks ligma Who uses ? On social media and in texts, the bearded person emoji is frequently used in content referring to actual persons, almost always a cisgendered man, with beards, especially the big, bushy ones popular in the late 2010s. 🧔 Big beard. 🦁 Big performance. #AVFC pic.twitter.com/c3CnQ8RHLa — Sky Bet (@SkyBet) May 15, 2018 Before and after a year long beard bet 🧔 pic.twitter.com/a99x0fHwHA — Michael Whitehead (@barely_irish) May 7, 2018 With this trend has come all kinds of groups and organizations using beards as a fun way to promote its causes, like No-Shave November or Movember. Later this week, we will be launching our Annual Father’s Day Beard Contest. Now’s the time to get your glorious beard photo ready! 🧔 📷 💪💫 Details coming soon… Stay fresh and enjoy life!#dadbeard #beard #beards #BeardGang #bearded #fathersday2018 pic.twitter.com/peO6c06lsD — Fresh Beards (@freshbeards) May 14, 2018 #Movember ended! But I still want to continue this. Should I? 🤔 🧔 #noshavenovember #newlook #newme pic.twitter.com/qEWzWGdN5i — Kannaa (@kannaa_kr) December 2, 2017 In professional sports, especially hockey, some players (and their fans) grow “playoff beards,” not shaved until the team is eliminated from or wins the playoffs. Congratulations to @Meechree on winning our playoff beard contest! Just look at that magnificent, luscious beard! 🧔 https://t.co/sxZy74HOED — CoolHockey.com (@CoolHockey1) May 7, 2018 All those beards require maintenance, and so the bearded person emoji often tags content dealing with male grooming, a burgeoning industry in the late 2010s. In this way, it’s often paired with the barber pole or scissors emoji. The amount of money I spend on hair products, trial and error, to find the perfect one…I think I need a sponsor 😂🧔🙏 pic.twitter.com/qt5ufPSqkG — Mike Conroy (@MikeJConroy) May 16, 2018 Often times, the emoji is used to remark that such bearded fellows are handsome, many men and women liking the beard for its rugged, rough-around-the-edges sexiness—as long as it’s well groomed dudes. David in a minivan 🚐! The beard 🧔 is back, he is looking mighty handsome! ❤😘😎 @thedavidcook pic.twitter.com/Jv3eJbF1Vz — Sothia Chhoeum (@sothiachhoeum2) May 12, 2018 The association between beards and “being a man,” for better or worse, is a tight one, and so the bearded person emoji stands in for men more generally—or at least dudes thinking that’s what they are. Prom with all my Dads 🧔 pic.twitter.com/cZ4XV73s2J — Campbell Suffridge (@CampbellSuffri1) May 15, 2018 In LGBTQ slang, a beard is someone who acts or is used as someone’s partner to conceal that they are gay. Occasionally, the bearded person alludes to this slang. TGIF. The gay intern @Apple did well 🐻🧔😍 #bears pic.twitter.com/lkdcfteaGx — Garrett Paul Benson (@gpaulbenson) April 6, 2018 Just Added FYP, infodemic, contact tracing, murder hornet, slap Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of that will help our users expand their word mastery.