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  • noun Plural form of emoticon.

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Examples

  • Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?

    Special Guest Post: Publishing Industry Evisceration Edition!!!! 2009

  • Maybe you send me a nice email saying that it really moved you and I get paid, what, in emoticons?

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.

    Semicolons reinvented 2008

  • I admit that I have used and occasionally abused the semicolon in emoticons – always in a highly informal context – but have yet to decide if that constitutes a lapse of some sort.

    August « 2008 « Sentence first 2008

  • Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.

    On Emoticons Richard Nokes 2005

  • Another interesting function of emoticons is misdirection.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Here's a gallery of even older emoticons from the 1970s-era PLATO system:

    Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Recently I discovered that my BlackBerry has 30 "emoticons" - icons designed to express emotion - preloaded for texting.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN WIDDICOMBE 2010

  • EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?

    Esato discussion forum 2009

  • EDIT: I believe what I am on about is the 'emoticons' - Have SE removed them?

    Esato discussion forum 2009

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