Emoticon

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A facial glyph, used especially in e-mail and instant messages and sometimes typed sideways, that indicates an emotion or attitude, as :-) to indicate intended humor. noun

A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of ASCII characters, of a particular emotion of the writer. noun

A representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email noun

A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.

An emoticon, sometimes called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters such as :) or ^_^, that is intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. Use in internet forums and instant-messaging. Urban Dictionary

The antithesis of intelligent writing. Urban Dictionary

A simple text depiction of what one's face would look like if an online conversation were taking place in person. Urban Dictionary

A means of expressing emotion via Internet chat rooms and private messages. (Note: Do not use emoticons unironically, unless you're speaking to someone who doesn't understand your language.) Urban Dictionary

Any of a series of characters used by people to represent emotions that cannot easily be easily expressed during the course of a chat session they are engaged in to avoid the necessity of expressing emotion face to face. Urban Dictionary

Pointless but fun... Urban Dictionary

An icon (almost always a circle) used to represent an emotion; an advanced smily face. Urban Dictionary

A symbol made from punctuation marks, used to denote emotion Urban Dictionary

When your real life sucks so much you have to express how you feel through little Asian faces on the internet. Urban Dictionary

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Words that are spelled similarly to emoticon:
emoticon, emotion, motion, demotion, emption, amotion, emoticons, remotion, modicon, exotico, emotivo, erotico.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word emoticon:
emoticons, smiley, packs, expression, face, internet, commonly, character, available, popular, form, using, board, written.

Words that rhyme with emoticon:
on, upon, phenomenon, liaison, con, john, dawn, paragon, echelon, don, moron, denouement, lexicon, spawn, fawn, non, swan, pantheon, salon, rapprochement, wan, pawn, amazon, lawn, polygon, baton, gone, pylon, drawn, take on, khan, axon, argon, pecan, coupon, yawn, automaton, bon, brawn, avalon, oman, crayon, carillon, marathon, yuan, babylon, prawn, hexagon, flawn, han, capon, proton, antiphon, bygone, oregon, aileron, hon, sine qua non, foregone, iran, neutron, withdrawn, quan, tron, celadon, photon, mastodon, meson, octagon, juan, pion, radon, ron, pentagon, epsilon, hogan, boron, braun, nylon, forgone, put on, sean, parmesan, get on, carry on, yon, agamemnon, micron, based on, gabon, woebegone, chiffon, aragon, pass on, draw on, call on, oberon, amadon, go on, exon.

Adjectives that are often used to describe emoticon:
smiley, common, face.

Words that sound like emoticon:
emoticon, emoticons, shotokan, american, untaken, americain, amir khan, uneaten, amotion, metacom, metycaine, enneagon.