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Wastebasket

The 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji depicts a container, typically gray or metallic, used for holding trash or waste. Its primary meaning revolves around disposal, garbage, and cleanliness. It's commonly used to...

📖 Meaning & Usage

The 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji depicts a container, typically gray or metallic, used for holding trash or waste. Its primary meaning revolves around disposal, garbage, and cleanliness. It's commonly used to indicate something unwanted, useless, or deserving of being discarded, both literally and figuratively. The emoji can also represent environmental awareness and the act of recycling or cleaning up. In a metaphorical sense, it can signify deleting a file, rejecting an idea, or ending a relationship. The Wastebasket emoji was introduced in Unicode version 6.0 in 2014.

🎯 Usage Contexts

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Literal trash disposal

Time to take out the 🗑️

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Deleting digital files

Just emptied my computer's 🗑️

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Rejecting an idea or suggestion

That proposal is going straight into the 🗑️

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Ending a relationship or friendship

I'm done, this relationship is 🗑️

📱 Platform Appearances

Wastebasket Google Noto emoji Google Noto Apache 2.0
Wastebasket Twitter/X emoji Twitter/X CC-BY 4.0
Wastebasket OpenMoji emoji OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0

ℹ️ All images shown are from open-licensed sources (Apache 2.0, MIT, CC-BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0) and are free to use.

💬 Ready Messages

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Cleaning out my closet! 🗑️

Deleting old files to free up space 🗑️

That's a terrible idea 🗑️

Time to take out the trash 🗑️

Officially done with that project! 🗑️

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💡 Usage Tips

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Use with other emojis

Combine the 🗑️ with other emojis like ♻️ (recycle) or 🌎 (globe) to express environmental concerns.

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Figurative meaning

Don't limit the use of 🗑️ to just literal trash. Use it to express disagreement or rejection in a lighthearted way.

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Context is key

Be mindful of the context when using this emoji as it can be perceived negatively if used inappropriately.

💻 Developer Codes

U+1F5D1-FE0F
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