Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hanging down; leaning or lying at ease.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of loll.
  • verb slang Present participle of lol.

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Examples

  • Both dogs came to join their respective masters, Cody flopping down on the grass and rolling onto her back, her red tongue lolling from the side of her mouth.

    Writer’s Island -Friendship 2007

  • Being present in a public place without an orientation to apparent goals outside the situation is sometimes called lolling, when position is fixed, and loitering, when some movement is entailed.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • It seemed as if all gross and heavy bodies had sunk down in the heat motionless and lay huddled upon the ground, but their voices went wavering from them as if they were flames lolling from the thick waxen bodies of candles.

    Monday or Tuesday 1921

  • Hammerton rather liked the idea of lolling on a luxurious yacht and explaining to the outwitted owner just how he had done it.

    Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • "It's just kind of lolling around," she said over her wrist phone.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • I have just realized that the word 'lolling', in the sense of something done by a head from side-to-side, is doomed.

    FriendFeed 2009

  • I have just realized that the word 'lolling', in the sense of something done by a head from side-to-side, is doomed.

    FriendFeed 2009

  • I have just realized that the word 'lolling', in the sense of something done by a head from side-to-side, is doomed.

    FriendFeed 2009

  • I have just realized that the word 'lolling', in the sense of something done by a head from side-to-side, is doomed.

    FriendFeed 2009

  • He could hear the murmur of their voices: they were speaking the low German of his childhood, muttering to themselves, while the bright sun cruelly clarified their workmen's clothes and their shrunken bodies with the over-large lolling heads and hands of marionettes.

    Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

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  • The word means a kind of relaxed slouch, but all I see is "laugh out loud"-ing. It's a good word on its own merits, but for that association I hate it. Stupid internets, what have you done to me??

    May 10, 2007