For generations, teenagers have used slang as their secret language. For this reason, communicating with your teen can be challenging. You need to know their slang to comprehend them fully. And if you want to understand their text messages and chats, we have the emoji slang you must learn to decipher their meaning.
Since the invention of the emoji in 1999, messaging teens and adults have gotten creative with using pictures to represent words. And it wasn’t long before those tiny picture emoticons took on second, more suggestive and sexual meanings. Today, people recognize these second meanings for emojis so universally that it has become a secret and suggestive language. Teens use slang as their primary language, which helps hide their conversations from parents and other concerned adults. They use emoji slang to communicate quickly and secretively.
As a parent in today’s digital world, keeping up with your tween and teens’ communication is a time-consuming yet vital task. MMGuardian is dedicated to helping parents protect their children in the digital world. Our teen slang glossary and emoji glossary serve as two resources for parents to better understand how their children communicate with their peers.
Bookmark this page in your browser to refer to this glossary whenever needed. Get the support parents need from MMGuardian’s technology. Our AI-powered monitoring is designed to recognize inappropriate, violent, and sexual content (even if it’s in emoji form) and alert you right away.
Key Takeaways Parents Should Know About Emoji Slang:
- Emojis are often used to convey an emotion or to represent a word literally.
- Emojis can also have another meaning than the literal representation (for example, a peach refers to a person’s butt).
- While some emoji slang is widely accepted into popular culture, different groups and generations can use emojis differently.
- Understanding emoji slang will help you better interpret your child’s texts and chat messages.
- When in doubt, use this glossary and the context of the conversation to determine meaning.
Popular Emoji Slang:
- 👍: can be genuine or sarcastic
- 🍑: butt, rear end
- 💦: ejaculation
- 🍆, 🌭, 🍌, 🐍: penis
- 💀: dead from laughing
- 💯 : agree completely “100%”
- 🌮,🐱 : vagina
- 👻 : being ghosted or ignored by someone
- 🤡 : feeling foolish (like a clown)
- 🫖,☕️ : What’s the “tea” or gossip
- 🌽 : porn
- 🌷,✌🏼, 🥠: vagina
- 🍒 : virginity, testicles, breasts or butt
- 🍎,🍐,🍑: butt
- 🍈🍈 🐫: breasts
- ⚽️⚽️,🏀🏀: testicles
- 🥜 🤯 🍾 🚀: ejaculation/climax
- 👅,😛,🍭,👄,💋: oral sex
- 🦴,🔨 : sex
- 🌶️ : spicy
- 🔥: used to represent something good, can be sexual as well
- 😈,🦄,🦏 : horny
- ❄️ : cocaine
- 🍀🍃🍁: Marijuana
- 🙏 : thank you or gratitude
Bookmark this page to refer back to as needed, and use MMGuardian to provide support. The MMGuardian app and phone will monitor your child’s messages for sexual, violent, and inappropriate content like these emojis. Let MMGuardian keep your children safe and allow them to enjoy messaging their friends without inappropriate content.
