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The X isn't kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural

Doesn't "XOXO" mean "hugs and kisses"? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

That was always my understanding of it.

Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.

You're interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been "hugs and kisses" for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.

That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

Yeah I don't get it either, but it's been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.

Yeah that's what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it's seen and way!