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Business Definition for: Emoticon
- a symbol commonly used in e-mail and newsgroup messages to denote a particular emotion by representing a face on its side. For example, :-) indicates happiness by representing a smiley face. The word is a combination of "emotion" and "icon."
Wiktionary Definition for: Emoticon
- A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of ASCII characters, of a particular emotion of the writer.
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