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cat face
Animals & Natureanimal-mammal
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Low misread risk25/100🙈 Not safe at work
− Avoid when: actual cat content, which is most cat content. the internet is 40% cat photos and the other reading has to wait its turn
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🌱 Starter
The word your keyboard lets you say. The cat emoji does the job the word can't do in polite company, and both parties to the conversation know which noun is on the table. Urban Dictionary documented this arrangement before some of its users were born.
When to use
- +"he's scared of 🐱" as an insult
- +the caption that is not about cats
- +the deniability when a parent reads over the shoulder
Avoid when
- −actual cat content, which is most cat content. the internet is 40% cat photos and the other reading has to wait its turn
crudeworkaround worddeniabilityanatomy
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Urban Emoji·7/3/20260
🌱 Starter
An actual cat. The overwhelming majority use: someone's void, someone's orange idiot, a shelter post. The other definition lives in the same emoji like a bad roommate and stays in its room most of the time.
When to use
- +"new rescue 🐱"
- +the void that knocked the glass off the counter
- +adoption day photos
Avoid when
- −never. post the cat. the internet was built for this
catwholesomevoidorange idiot
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Urban Emoji·7/3/2026