:|

An anti-emoticon. Face with no emotion. While a person excepts you to do ":D", you can give ":|" instead, if the joke wasn't funny. Can also express that you are telling something seriously, although it sounds like a joke.

Person A: hey wassup?
Person B: The sky :|

Person A: My cat died because I put it in the microwave oven to dry it up
Person B: haha yea right
Person A: not a joke :|

by le mons December 24, 2008

:|

An expressionless face

"Hi, my name is Bob. :|"

by Uncle Bob November 11, 2002

}:|

its a frowny face
if your upset with someone you would use it

person a: yeah, i had yo mama last night
person b: }:| dude uncool

by mizza me March 19, 2007

( _ | _ )

It is basically meant to be a picture of a bum or booty or ass and is commonly used in text messages.

Variations are:
(#|_) A spanked bum
(*|_) A kissed bum
(_Y_) A bum with a big upper crack
(_x_) A tight ass
(_______|_______) BIG BUTT

and many more.

Stop being such an (_|_)

kiss my (_|_)

(#|_) !!! (#|_) !!! you naughty boy

by danarae June 21, 2006

:(){ :|:& };:

A Unix fork bomb, DO NOT run it, it is dangerous. It will freeze the system and after 1 minute, the terminal will keep saying "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable", and the system load will decrease slowly. New programs cannot be started when using fork bomb.

user@localhost ~$:(){ :|:& };:
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

by SM++ May 24, 2009

|

Pronounced "pipe". In a UNIX shell, it is used to redirect the standard output (stdout) of a command to the standard input (stdin) of the next.

ALso, in C, C++ and others, it is the symbol for the logical expression 'or'.

$ ls | grep e
^^^ outputs all entries in current directory that have the letter 'e'. Takes output of 'ls' and supplies that as the pattern grep looks for.

this || that
^^^ literally resolves to "this or that"

by UmmAgummA July 28, 2005

;|

ghetto wink, for the flirtatious black man, cause eerybody knows a nigga dont smile

Sheeyt ho, you lookin' fine tonight ;|

by malcolmSex April 4, 2011