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  • interjection archaic Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
  • interjection Internet slang, text messaging Alternative form of LOL.
  • verb Internet slang, text messaging, intransitive Alternative form of LOL.

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Examples

  • Yet, all was licked clean, as soon as it wa sout of the pan..coutesy my cousins...lol, however without sparing me with taunts. shameless creatures..lol

    Burnt and Baked bhags 2008

  • Don't u just hate it when a guy keeps staring at u for long, and he knows u noticed that too, and hi go still dey look like roasted he-goat...dat crap pisses me off abeg lol naija hold-up...na wa o some ppl go comto dem car, begin waka..lol

    RECAP FROM LAST FRIDAY. princesa 2007

  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

    WordPress.com Top Blogs 2009

  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

    WordPress.com Top Blogs 2009

  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? the home of lol cats and lol*

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  • txtspk for "laugh out loud"

    October 5, 2007

  • See also lolcat.

    May 13, 2008

  • Now this is cool: in Dutch "lol" means fun or lark(s). (And lol maken means to have fun.)

    October 12, 2008

  • This is mystical "stuff" at the center of a lollypop that is mined through a quest of enumerable licking, then delightfully spread throughout the lands by cats.

    December 2, 2008

  • From Wikipedia:

    "David Crystal notes that use of LOL is not necessarily genuine, just as the use of smiley faces or grins is not necessarily genuine, posing the rhetorical question "How many people are actually 'laughing out loud' when they send LOL?". Franzini concurs, stating that there is as yet no research that has determined the percentage of people who are actually laughing out loud when they write 'LOL'."

    January 6, 2009

  • Wow. Someone actually sat down and wrote that paragraph.

    January 6, 2009

  • I very seldom write lol, and still I estimate I'm actually laughing out loud on no more than 1% such occasions.

    January 6, 2009

  • Though often I am laughing in my head. But limh just doesn't look right.

    January 6, 2009

  • I have a stifled giggle often but I don't like telling people about it.

    January 6, 2009

  • whichbe: I think that the elusive 'lol' elixir has also been isolated in the sap of the loblolly pine. Should you have such a tree, or cluster of them, and should you be contemplating harvesting them because your 401K has become a 201K (i.e. lost half its value), an estimate of your return can be obtained by running this program . It is not clear whether cats can play any useful role in isolating the 'lol' ichor from the tree; though chained_bear might be able to lease out a loblolly boy or two to help with the harvest.

    It appears that yarb is admitting to being a proto-agelast. But give him a couple of weeks with the Proust; 30 pages of reading about someone turning over in bed and whining because maman didn't come up to kiss him goodnight will have him in stitches, fer shurr.

    January 6, 2009

  • At last! A Loblolly Pine Calculator! That makes me smile my head off.

    January 6, 2009

  • *hears thump*

    *hands reesetee's head back*

    I love sionnach's last sentence.

    Also, I very seldom write LOL also... actually I never write it, and seldom type it... but when I do it's because I actually did make some kind of untoward noise. I don't think it counts to limh or even to smile in my head (simh). But if I actually make some kind of audible noise, I figure that's a fair LOL.

    January 6, 2009

  • *replaces head*

    Thanks, c_b. Odd...that hardly ever happens.

    January 7, 2009

  • Hey, lol means 1. bloom, flower or 2. rose in Mayan language...! *Blooming laughter.*

    March 8, 2009

  • Abbreviation for "laugh out loud" used in internet & text messaging.

    July 6, 2009

  • short for Laugh out loud or lots of love. used in e-mail and phone texting

    July 15, 2009

  • The sixth Vexample is particularly vexing.

    February 13, 2010

  • Increasingly, I'm noticing compulsive use of this in internet forums, craigslist ads etc, i.e. a lol every eight to ten words. Some people seem to be using lol in lieu of standard punctuation.

    February 13, 2010

  • I almost never look at the Vexamples. The sorry assortment given for this entry reminds me why not.

    February 13, 2010

  • Field Guide to the Acronymical Kingdom

    March 5, 2010

  • There is no surer way to sound like a moron than to use this word in spoken conversation.

    April 2, 2010

  • Milosrdenstvi, I accept that challenge. There must be a way, and I will find it!

    April 2, 2010

  • I heard Italian teenagers say lollissimo ("very lol"). They win.

    April 2, 2010

  • Hmmm, lollissimo sounds very nice to my ears...

    April 2, 2010

  • Speaking of "win", excessive use of that word (and its counterpart/nonantonym, "fail") is another sure pathway to morondom. Perhaps a spoken intellectual equivalent to greengrocer's apostrophe.

    April 2, 2010

  • Really? This is both awesome and gay at the same time!

    April 2, 2010

  • me luv lol.....lol!!!!

    December 4, 2012

  • The suffix for beta-blockers is -lol, often -olol although sometimes -alol is also used.

    Examples: atenolol, metoprolol, propranolol, primidolol, etc.

    August 1, 2022