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🻠Clinking Beer Mugs emoji
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ºÚÁÏÍø does 🻠Clinking Beer Mugs emoji mean?
The Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠portrays two frosty mugs of beer being clinked together. It is commonly used to represent beer and other alcoholic beverages, bars, parties, celebrations, get-togethers, and the act of toasting.
Use of the Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠highly overlaps in use with the Beer Mug emoji ðŸº, and both emoji are likely to be used for International Beer Day, which occurs on the first Friday of August (August 6 in 2021), as well as for celebrations of Oktoberfest in Germany and throughout the world.
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Where does 🻠Clinking Beer Mugs emoji come from?

The Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. On most major platforms, the emoji depicts two mugs of foamy golden-brown beer being clinked together as is done during a toast. The Google and Twitter versions include action lines to indicate the mugs are clinking together. On all major platforms, the two mugs of beer used in the emoji are identical in appearance to the mug of beer depicted in each platform’s version of the Beer Mug emoji ðŸº.
The Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠depicts two mugs of beer being used in a toast. Because of this, the Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠is used—often with a hearty “Cheers!”—to refer to occasions where people might toast each other before drinking alcohol, such as at a bar, party, or celebration.
The Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠is also used more generally to refer to beer, alcoholic beverages, beer-drinking, and drunkenness. In this sense, its usage overlaps with the Beer Mug emoji ðŸº, and the two are often used together.
Examples of 🻠Clinking Beer Mugs emoji
Who uses 🻠Clinking Beer Mugs emoji?
The Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠is often used to represent a toast.
Shoutout to all the new XRP investors.
You came at a good time. 📈Cheers! ðŸ»
— The Cryptic Poet (@1CrypticPoet)
A toast to being youself ðŸ»
— AWITONG 👤 (@ElijahBryant18)
More generally, the Clinking Beer Mugs emoji 🻠is used to refer to beer and alcohol.
Some cold beers after work sound GREATTT ðŸ»
— ð‘€ð‘Žð‘Ÿð‘– ♡´・ᴗ・`♡ (@Marisolruby3)
Me and my friends are so drunk and it’s only 11 am pray for us we are not okay 🤣🤦ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸ðŸ»
— Seli Silva (@seliisilvaa)
19 days into dryuary and I feel hungover watching other people party 🥴ðŸ»
— Katy (@lustrelux)
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