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1. Heart fail. This phenomenon happens when a person using an American keyboard attempts to create a heart by typing a less than sign, <, and a number 3 forgets to lift the shift key at the right time. The British variation looks like <£.

2. "I love you, but not enough to hit the backspace key and reattempt to create a decent looking heart."

3. A term coined by YouTube's jkimisyellow, it is is often used as a form of endearment with no hint of love.
1. "OMG ITZ UR 15th BIRTHDAY? HAAPPY BIRTHDAY <3<3<3<#<33<3<3<#!!!!!!!!!!11"

2. Me : Aww, you're so sweet <#
Friend : Fail.
Me : Heart fail. Dead.

3. I <# jkimisyellow
<# by ilyshincup August 27, 2010
Related Words
<# -----<#) <#}* <#3 <#3: >_<# cccc <# ~?!>@<#|$"%:^}&{*+(_)
exploding heart.

<# is an emoticon for an exploding heart. There is one person who makes me feel that way.
&lt;#
<# is an emoticon for an exploding heart. There is one person who makes me feel that way.
<# by drapheus May 15, 2011
Small child: Hello daddy.
Pedofilic father: <# now lets have teh sex.
<# by Drjudd June 17, 2007
An explosive expression of love, so explosive, in fact, that the author, eager to convey the sentiment, types so fast that they neglect to remove their finger from the Shift key prior to striking the 3 key, thereby resulting in the common typo <# instead of the intended heart.
<#
<# by Gee Oh March 14, 2011
A burned bouquet of flowers, used as a gift to someone you absolutely hate or have no interest in.
Man: <#
Woman: Wow, burned flowers. Thanks.
<# by weirdobob March 24, 2016

-----<#) 

A laccrosse stick
wanna go play -----<#)
-----<#) by OOYGOOY July 29, 2010