10 Grindr Emojis Explained

rob verdino
4 min readJun 26, 2016

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On the gay hook-up app Grindr guys like to use emojis in their profile headers to let you quickly know what they’re into when you’re scanning through profiles. There are a bunch of emojis with meanings that range from sexy acts to body parts and as you can imagine it’s sometimes hard to keep up.

Fortunately I’m here explain what the most popular emojis mean so the next time a faceless torso profile let’s you know you have a “cute pic” you can just look at the emoji in his header to see what his deal is. Although, I’m still not sure how he can see your profile picture when he has no face. Maybe that’s why he is also “looking for head?”

When you see a peach emoji he is subtlety letting you know that he has a real and functioning butt. This is always a good thing to clarify because otherwise there is a possibility that he may turn out to be a butt-less ken doll and everyone knows dates with ken dolls never work because they are terrible conversationists.

Googly eyes means he is “looking”. Although I don’t really know what he is looking for. He should probably just check the lost and found or hire a private eye.

This is exactly what you think it means, he is really into eggplant-parms. I suggest taking him to an authentic Italian restaurant like the Olive Garden. Unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks?! He will be molto impressed. After, you might even get a special bread stick in bed. HAY YO!

Ignore this. He is mainly letting the Domino’s Grindr profile know that he wants to order a pizza.

The wind blowing face emoji is his way of letting you know that he really likes the 3 little pigs as a bed time story. So if you are planning to stay the night, bring a copy to lull him to sleep. Also make sure it has pictures. A picture book will make you seem fun and artistic. After one 3rd grade librarian style read, he’ll totally be blowing your house down.

Wow Delicious! You may see this followed but the question “Eat Cake?” To which you might obviously reply “YASSSS”. What kind of question is that anyway? Who doesn’t like cake?! I hope it’s cheesecake.

The water drops emoji is a wild card so be very alert when you see it followed by the text “need to be sucked”. When you see these two things together it means he was probably bitten my a very venomous snake and needs the poison sucked out immediately. Thank God you caught his plea for help while you were on grindr during your friend’s one-man show. You’re a saint.

Get ready to dim the lights and have some fun in the dark! This guy is into shadow puppets, especially shadow puppet swans. When you two combine forces you’ll make a total of four swans and then you can have them all make out. Foursome anyone?!

The maple leaf emoji is him expressing his love for the fall season. Real talk: it’s probably his favorite season. He is definitely going to want a fall wedding which is so cliche. I want mine to be in a barn like Britana and Blurt’s joint wedding on glee. Wait, what am I doing on Grindr? I need to be on Farmers Only.

I hope you are all caught up on The Muppets because this guy is a huge Miss Piggy fan. Expect her to be the main conversation topic on your date/hook-up. Why shouldn’t she be? Miss Piggy is a QUEEN. He might also like the 3 little pigs as a bed time story.

You’re Welcome! Now everyone on Grindr will be so surprised by how informed you are!

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