LOL

or lol

[ el-oh-elor, often, lol ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

laughing out loud; laugh out loud: used as a response to something funny or as a follow-up to something said only as a joke:
You can see from the pics that my dog did not appreciate how we dressed him up for Halloween this year. LOL!

verb (used without object)

LOLed, LOLing.

to laugh: I can’t stop loling over this dumb video!
I literally LOLed when I got your text.
I can’t stop loling over this dumb video!

LOL

abbreviation for

laughing out loud

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Word History and Origins

Origin of LOL¹

First recorded in 1985–90; from its use in digital communications

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Example Sentences

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In an age of increasingly bizarre corporate social media — a landscape in which MoonPie can go viral for antagonizing Hostess with an immaculately placed “Lol ok” — this could just be a legitimate, strategic attempt by Albertsons to be Very Online.

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles issues an apology over a license plate that says “LOL” in reference to the Oct.

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She said guitarist Lol Creme "put me over his shoulder and carried me back to the studio".

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We get it: He’s stickin’ it to the French, lol.

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“Just wanted the radio car brought around if you were coming because I’m lazy. Lol,” he wrote in a text message cited in the report.

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Lok Sabha Lola

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