¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A fun way to say "I don't know," "Oh well,' or "Who knows." It is usually used as slang.

Person A Texting: do you know where my phone charger is?
Person B Texting: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by A Fancy Foe October 24, 2017

The face you make when you're asked to do a super hard math problem

Professor: Solve (2/3 (x^2+4)^(1/2) (x^2-9)^((-2)/3)-x(x^2-9)^(1/3) (x^2+4)^((-1)/2))/(x^2+4)

Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by Sleepy Ghost February 11, 2018

by Susysusser January 8, 2018

This is classed as the text emoji of the shrug, in the family tree of the lenny-type emojis.

It's a guy shrugging. Pretty self-explanatory. What did you expect? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When you search a term that is missing from UrbanDictionary, it will hit you with a "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry we couldn't find (term)"

by JackMeHasselhoff June 19, 2018

We can have Italian or we can have Mexican, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by Eaton.Rich November 30, 2017