🐐

Goat Emoji 🐐

Beyond the literal horned, bearded goat's head, this emoji's biggest job today is standing in for GOAT, internet slang for 'Greatest Of All Time.' It's used to crown the best ever at anything from basketball to a home-cooked meal.

What 🐐 means

The full body of a goat standing on all fours, displaying its short, pointed horns and a patch of fur under its chin (a goatee). Also visible are its blank eyes, stuck out ears, and on the other end, its fluffy tail.

The 🐐 Goat emoji suggests the harmless gentleness that a goat is known for but can also represent what the animal symbolizes in various cultures such as masculinity and fertility.

Different platforms vary in their depictions of this emoji, with some showing the goat facing straight ahead.

How and when to use it

If the subject matter literally involves goats, there's no emoji better than 🐐.
The 🐐 emoji conveys a sense of gentleness and innocence and can be used to display that.
A goat is often a sacrificial animal for religious purposes. So a person considered to be "doomed" can be represented by 🐐.
Gullibility is suggested through the reference of a goat, especially when one is pranked, therefore 🐐 does the job of symbolizing that quite well.
In sports, especially, the acronym G.O.A.T is used to describe someone who's the "Greatest Of All Time" in that field. The 🐐 emoji can be used is that case as well.

Other Names

🐐 Goatee
🐐 G.O.A.T
🐐 Billy Goat
🐐 Billy
🐐 Kid
🐐 Nanny
🐐 Baphomet
🐐 Mutton

🐐 in real conversations

What does 🐐 mean in texting?

Greatest Of All Time — the ultimate compliment, no animal involved. Dropped under a highlight-reel play, a perfect exam score, or anyone's best-ever performance at anything. 'Messi 🐐' settles an argument rather than starting one.

What does 🐐 mean from a guy?

Usually sports or gaming praise — crowning someone the best to ever do it. It shows up in group chats after a clutch win or a viral highlight, standing in for 'nobody's touching that.'

Does 🐐 always mean 'greatest of all time'?

Almost always in slang use, though it's still literally a goat — the animal emoji, no acronym attached, shows up for farm content or Capricorn horoscopes. Context around it makes the meaning obvious fast.

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-mammal
Codepoints: U+1F410
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :goat:
Keywords: animal, Capricorn, farm, goat, milk, zodiac

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.