🍖 meat on bone Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the meat on bone Emoji 🍖 Mean?

A juicy brown chunk of cooked meat still attached to a curved white bone, often resembling a turkey leg or large pork shank — the meat on bone emoji captures the most caveman-friendly food icon on the keyboard. Texters use it for BBQ content, Renaissance-fair photos, Flintstones references, Thanksgiving turkey-leg captions, and "hungry like a king" energy posts. Smoked-meat, brisket, and pulled-pork content adopts it constantly.

Medieval-fair turkey legs at Disneyland and state fairs pull it in heavily. Beyond literal food, the meat-on-bone emoji has carnivore-diet and keto-content uses, where it stands in for high-protein lifestyle content. "Meat sweats," food-coma jokes, and meat-lover-pizza posts adopt it too.

Some users send it in primal, hunger-driven contexts — "I need this kind of meal," "feed me" energy. Halloween haunted-feast posts use it. Pet content sometimes adopts it for dog-bone references, though there's a separate bone emoji for that.

Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the original food set, this emoji has been satisfying meat-lover keyboards for over a decade.