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smiley noun- a simplistic image of a smiling face, used for indicating laughter or happiness US
First seen as an icon and later in electronic communications formed with punctuation marks, generally as:) but with multiple variations. According to the magazine mentalfloss.com (September/October 2005), “On September 19, 1982 at 11:44 a.m., Professor Scott Fahlman introduced the familiar sideways face that would take the Internet by storm”. - She’s interviewed her husband, Louis, about “smiley faces” (“They’re the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen”), and talked with her mother about what it’s like for older people who can’t easily get outside during the winter months. — Christian Science Monitor, p. People/Living 15, 20 May 1982
- By accusing people of taking Datamation articles too seriously, watmath!rggoebel has shown lack of familiarity with computer terminology, lack of care in reading articles before replying, or forgot to add the smiley face:-) at the end of his article. — net.nlang, 19 January 1983
- — Christian Crumlish, The Internet Dictionary, p. 2, 1995
- Look back at the two most popular images on T-shirts and caps and bags, and anything else you can stick a patch on to help sell it: the yellow smiley acid face, and the green marijuana leaf. — Raving Lunacy, p. 54, 2000
- a tablet of LSD with the smiley icon printed or etched thereon UK
- Street names [...] rainbows, smilies, stars[.] — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 141, 1998
- a variety of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy, identified by the smiley motif embossed on the tablet UK
- Smiley–White with acid house face. — Gareth Thomas, This Is Ecstasy, p. 57, 2002
- a large chain with a padlock worn around the arm or neck US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 146, 1997
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