shruggies
shruggies is the plural of shruggie.
Meaning of shruggie
Noun
shruggie (plural shruggies)
- A kaomoji denoting a shrug; particularly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode. […] The shruggie...2014 May 21, Robinson Meyer, “The Best Way to Type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2016
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- Shruggies is the plural of shruggie.
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