lol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. Alternative form of LOL.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of LOL.
verb
  1. Alternative form of LOL.
particle
  1. Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
intj
  1. Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
intj
  1. Laughing (or laugh) out loud.
  2. Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
  3. Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious; sometimes extends to irony or sardonicism, in the same way that spoken humor sometimes does.
  4. Lots of love.
verb
  1. To laugh out loud.
noun
  1. Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch.
  2. Little old lady.
  3. An instance of the interjection "LOL".
name
  1. Initialism of League of Legends.
name
  1. A diminutive of the female given name Laura.
  2. A diminutive of the male given names Laurence or Lawrence.
name
  1. A state of Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.

Pronunciation

/ɛl.əʊˈɛl/ /lɒl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lol.wav /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/ /lɑl/ /loʊl/ /lɔːl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LOL2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LOL3.wav /ɛl.oʊˈɛl/ /lɔl/

Word forms

lol lols lol's loling lolling lol'ing loled lolled lol'd lol'ed lold lawl lel lul lolsies lolzies lulz

Etymology

Acronyms. Laugh Out Loud abbreviation apparently coined by Canadian Wayne Pearson in the early-to-mid 1980s and first attested in 1989.

Translations

Czech: lol Finnish: lol Finnish: naur Finnish: reps
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