🪤

Mouse Trap Emoji 🪤

A wooden snap trap baited with a wedge of cheese, though real mice go for peanut butter and bacon over cheese most days. It's typed for an actual pest problem, real or joked about, and doubles as a warning about any deal, message, or offer that looks too good to be a coincidence.

What 🪤 means

A rectangular wooden box held up on one side with a stick that has a thin thread tied to it. Beneath this box is a triangular piece of yellow cheese with a couple of holes in it.

The 🪤 Mouse Trap emoji represents a trap as the name and the use of this mechanism suggests. It could also signify trickery, deceit, and maybe even dishonesty to a certain extent, as deduced from the Shakespearean lingo.

How and when to use it

If you got tricked into something and you're texting a close friend or family about it, you can use 🪤 in that context. Like, "It was a solid mousetrap and I walked right into it 🪤 Ugh. Why am I like this?".
Another example of the previous use case - "You wouldn't believe it. She absolutely mousetrapped him into paying all her bills 🪤!!".
In the same framework, you can use 🪤 while advising someone about a potential trap, hidden danger or helping them read between the lines. For instance, "Hmm. Seems a little fishy to me. Anyhoo. Just watch your step, babe 🪤".
Similarly, 🪤 fits great into the context of catching someone or something red-handed too.
While referring to lesser quality cheese, you can use 🪤 as a way of saying "Ew. That's the typical rat-trap-cheese! 🪤 It tasted horrible".

Other Names

🪤 Mousetrap
🪤 Rat-Cheese-Trap
🪤 Mousetrapped
🪤 Mouse Trap With Cheese
🪤 Rat Trap
🪤 Build a Trap
🪤 Rodent Trap

The lowdown

Category: Objects › household
Codepoints: U+1FAA4
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :mouse_trap:
Keywords: bait, cheese, lure, mouse, mousetrap, snare, trap

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.