Rat Emoji [Meaning, Copy and Paste]

For the most part, people have a negative association with rats, as they consider them to be disgusting and gross. It’s a very popular fact that New York is full of rats, so if you’ve been to New York, you can probably relate to how rats can truly be annoying sometimes. Many people also often confuse rats with mice, even though mice are considered to be much cuter and cleaner. Nonetheless, there is an emoji of a rat, and like everything, there is a separate meaning for the rat emoji itself. And this article will discuss exactly that! 

Rat Emoji 2023:

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All Emojis That Can Be Used For Rat:

How to use these emojis? 

Copy and paste the rat emoji in just one click. Just click on the rat emoji copy button next to it and insert it anywhere.

Various meanings of the emoji 

Direct Meaning

Even though the rat itself is a small animal, its meanings are heavy and relatively more in number than emojis of other animals. To begin with the most basic meaning, the emoji is a representative of what it truly is – a rat. A rat or a rodent is a long-tailed animal that is often spotted in larger cities. It is a four-legged animal, which is grey with pink ears. Therefore, one could simply be using this emoji when talking about rats. 

Indirect Meaning 

On the other hand, there is an insider, metaphorical meaning to rats too. The term ‘rat’ is often used for someone who is a betrayer, a traitor, and selfish to their friends and families. Because of such activities, they go behind people’s backs and are generally shady, where some might even resort to criminal activities. Thus, “rat” is also used to call someone out engaged in such a lifestyle making it an insult. 

Urban Dictionary/Slang Meaning

In the meantime, the rat emoji urban dictionary stands on similar grounds, where it is used to expose someone for their ill doings besides justifiable anger, irritation, and repulsion. On the other hand, the urban dictionary allows using “rat” for an annoying friend, or somebody you dearly love in your life, where you love them just to annoy them. 

Snapchat Meaning

Then, after all of this, what does the rat emoji mean on Snapchat? Snapchat’s meaning is completely different than one could imagine. The emoji of a rat on Snapchat is the official icon used to verify the Snapchat account of Ruby Rose, who is a model and an actress. 

Twilight Meaning

Twilight also has rats somewhere in its context, making the rat emoji Twilight a frequent reference in the world of Twilighters and Twihards. The story behind them is that there is a Facebook group dedicated to Twilight and its related posts called Twilight Sewerposting. The group was made in response to a group, Twilight Shitposting. As rats live in sewers, fans are at times, referred to as rats because of the group name. 

Okay then, What Does this Emoji Look Like? 

After knowing all the probable meanings, this is an obvious question to follow. The emoji is grey with pink ears, tails, and feet. The feet of the rats are facing forward on most platforms. Some devices have made their rats look realistic enough to classify as an actual image, while some have kept them cute and animated. Mostly, all emojis look much less the same no matter what device or application they are on. Nonetheless, there are some slight customizations in each of them. 

The rat on Apple is quite realistic – the most realistic is fair to say. It generally looks big, with grey fur and a slight brown undertone. The tail is relatively long and the rat is sitting on all its four limbs; these two features and the ears are pink. Apple’s rival Samsung has a slightly different take on the emoji. While the posture and the angle remain similar to that of Apple’s, the overall design is much more animated and cartoon, with less detailing. 

It is a known fact that devices have different emoji keyboards. Similarly, so do different applications like WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook. WhatsApp’s rat is a front-facing rat with a big head and small body. It is also cartoony looking with additional features in pink. Meanwhile, Twitter’s emoji lacks detailing and it is just the outline of a rat filled in with grey. On Twitter, while the ears are pink, the tail is red. Facebook’s rat is white and is generally tall and has a smaller head. 

How to get these emojis on your computer?
It’s simple to get an emoji on a phone. However, confusion always springs up when it’s time to get them on a computer. However, there’s nothing to worry about since they are easily accessible on Mac and Windows both. On both of them, just press a few keys and get the emoji keyboard. These keys are:

Windows: Windows logo key, period 

Mac: Command, control, space bar 

Once pressed, the emoji keyboard will appear and all it takes is a little bit of searching to get to the emoji of a rat itself.