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n. A sideways facial glyph used in e-mail to indicate an emotion or attitude, as to indicate intended humor [ :-) ].

n. A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of ASCII characters, of a particular emotion of the writer.

n. a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email

"Being such a social networking savvy person, you may know what the term emoticon means - it's a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression."

facial expression    facial gesture   

Smiley   

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