kitchen knife

The 🔪 kitchen knife emoji mainly refers to a knife used for cooking. It can symbolize a chef or indicate that you are 'in the middle of cooking.'

While positive when talking about cooking, it can feel scary or threatening in other contexts, so it should be used with caution.

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This emoji can signify a professional chef's tool and be used to show off skills, but it also has a chilling flip side, like a classic prop in a horror movie.

Beyond its meaning of cooking or threat, it's also used to signify resolutely ending something, like 'cutting off a relationship' or 'kicking a bad habit.' It can also be wittily used to imply one's words are 'sharp' when making a sharp criticism or a biting joke.