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🧊 Ice Cube emoji
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What does 🧊 Ice Cube emoji mean?
The Ice Cube emoji 🧊, depicts a grayish-blue cube of frozen water. It’s the perfect accompaniment to all your digital cold beverages.
The Ice Cube emoji 🧊 is also used in reference to all things cool, both literally (like the weather) and figuratively (like rapper and actor Ice Cube).
Where does 🧊 Ice Cube emoji come from?
Fancy some ice in your (emoji) drink? 🥃 🥤 Well, now you can have it, with the Ice Cube emoji 🧊.
The emoji was approved in 2019 under Unicode 12.0. It’s categorized under Food & Drink, which is sensible, as ice cubes are typically used to cool our various drinks. The Ice Cube emoji 🧊 appears to have been inspired by a March 2018 proposal for an iceberg emoji.
Current versions display the ice cube as, well, a grayish-blue block of ice. On unsupported platforms, the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 may display as an empty box.
Examples of 🧊 Ice Cube emoji
Who uses 🧊 Ice Cube emoji?
While the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 is only fresh out of the emoji freezer, users have already found a range of clever applications for it.
For starters, the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 may be used alongside other Food & Drink emoji (e.g., Lemon emoji 🍋, for an ice-cold lemonade) in reference to cold drinks—often of the adult variety.
#StrangeWaysToRelax I do what I call "Going to Italy": I draw a hot bath w/ bathsalts, play the album Romance in Venice, light a Champagne Toast candle, wash w/ Bath&Bodyworks Limoncello, and sip an ice-cold lemonade. So relaxing 🇮🇹🛀🧂🚣🏽♂️🎵🕯️🥂🍋🧊https://t.co/gh52hcMRDj
— 🌎👑 Lazy Dictator 👑🌍 (@LazyDictator) April 19, 2019
The shape of the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 has also lent the pictogram to various representation of cube-like shapes or concepts.
.@Boltz absolutely MELTS the two CT's rushing him on an Eco 🧊#ESLProLeague https://t.co/ZvDWXMCAnq pic.twitter.com/fkiB2YUm3S
— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) April 22, 2019
Ice is cold, and various terms for cold are used to mean “excellent, good, laidback” (e.g., chill). Expect to find the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 used for these and other ice-related expressions, such as an icy stare or a conversational icebreaker.
LOL the workplace
hella chill 🧊
We cool out there 🐐
Nutsku knows the g.o.a.t. of #techstering— 🔁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 ★ (@globalmarduk) April 19, 2019
Of course, ice is actually cold, so the Ice Cube emoji 🧊 sees literal uses for cold temperatures or weather events.
Wind shoves ice ashore along northern Lake Michigan! 🧊https://t.co/Vqkwyc2Fkm pic.twitter.com/hlEIHeAwzp
— iceScreen (@icescreens) April 18, 2019
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of 🧊 Ice Cube emoji like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of 🧊 Ice Cube emoji that will help our users expand their word mastery.