🦀

Text style	Emoji style
🦀︎	🦀️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🦀 U+1F980, 🦀 CRAB ← 🥿 [U+1F97F] Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs 🦁 → [U+1F981]

Translingual

Description

Depiction of a crab with its pincers up.

Symbol

🦀︎

1. Represents a crab.
2. Represents the star sign cancer.

   Synonym: ♋︎

Further reading

• “🦀 Crab”, in Emojipedia, 2013–present.

English

Etymology

From 2018 April Fools' Day single "Crab Rave" by musician Noisestorm, where the music video features crabs dancing in a similar form to this emoji; popularized by a version in which the words "Obama is Gone" were overlaid on the video.

Symbol

🦀

1. Used in celebration.

   🦀 The mods are gone 🦀

   They resigned! —Really? 🦀🦀🦀

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:🦀.
2. (Internet slang, humorous) good riddance

Usage notes

• Frequently used following the downfall of a political opponent, similarly to the popularization of the music video.