🗑 Wastebasket

Code Points: U+1F5D1

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🗑 Emoji Meaning

The 🗑️ Wastebasket emoji generally represents the concept of discarding or deleting something. Here are some of its most popular meanings:

  • Discarding unwanted items: This is the most literal meaning, referring to throwing something away in a physical trash can or bin.
  • Deleting digital files or information: Commonly used to signify deleting emails, messages, or other digital content. Think of the "trash" or "recycle bin" icon on a computer.
  • Getting rid of something abstract: This can represent discarding bad habits, negative thoughts, or unwanted feelings.
  • Ignoring or dismissing something: Similar to deleting, but perhaps with a more forceful connotation of rejecting or disregarding something completely.
  • Messing up or failing: Sometimes used to express a mistake or failure, as in "throwing something in the trash" because it didn't work out.
  • Something worthless or useless: Can represent something considered trash, garbage, or of no value.

Wastebasket Emoji Images

Here is how Wastebasket emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:

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