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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of LOL.

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Examples

  • Chock full of LOLs is this Ralph Peters, a troglodyte New York Post columnist who manages to be wrong about everything and who now writes this funny-ha-ha column about the inhumanity of the people of Afghanistan:

    Subhumans | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Which means every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms (those delightful "LOLs" and "TTYLs") to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds.

    Dr. Galit Dayan: Text like an Egyptian 2010

  • Which means every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms (those delightful "LOLs" and "TTYLs") to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds.

    Dr. Galit Dayan: Text like an Egyptian Dr. Galit Dayan 2010

  • Oh, I know... most of that text has nothing to do with the actual duel of compliments, which was uproariously funny and entirely and spontaneously ad libbed, but that level of sophistication in their text chat is standard fare with his crowd, where "LOLs" and "ROFLs" are quite, quite absent.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • Oh, I know... most of that text has nothing to do with the actual duel of compliments, which was uproariously funny and entirely and spontaneously ad libbed, but that level of sophistication in their text chat is standard fare with his crowd, where "LOLs" and "ROFLs" are quite, quite absent.

    STEALTH BLOGPOST #1: Battle of the Ironclads Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • And writers in gospel times did not use "LOLs" and emoticons.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • For many tweeting comedians, the medium is the message, and snagging "LOLs" on Twitter is both an art and a marketing strategy.

    Mashable! 2010

  • For many tweeting comedians, the medium is the message, and snagging "LOLs" on Twitter is both an art and a marketing strategy.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • And writers in gospel times did not use "LOLs" and emoticons.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • And writers in gospel times did not use "LOLs" and emoticons.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

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