Emotes

An emote is a command that is used to express emotion. Star Wars: The Old Republic has several pre-defined slash command emotes. Players can also create custom emotes and unlock emotes from the Cartel Market.

Custom Emotes
Players can create custom emotes using the command  or   followed by the emote. For example, a character named Sam wants to make a custom emote.

This:

Shows up like this in the chat log:

emote

Cartel Market Emotes
Emote unlocks can be found in Crime Lord's Cartel Packs and Black Market Cartel Packs which can be purchased from the Cartel Market.