LOL

See also lol

English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• lol

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɛl.əu.ɛl/, /lɔːl/, /lɒl/, SAMPA: /El.@U.El/, /lO:l/, /lQl/
• (US) IPA: /ɛl.oʊ.ɛl/, /lɔl/, /lɑl/, /loʊl/, /lol/, SAMPA: /El.oU.El/, /lOl/, /lAl/, /loUl/, /lol/

Initialism

LOL

1. (Internet, Internet slang, text messaging) Laughing (or laugh) out loud
2. (Internet, Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs (occasionally used)
3. (letter-writing) Lots of love (now obsolete or dated)
4. (US, British commonwealth, Ireland) Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch.

Translations

Expression of laughter

Arabic: لول (lūl) Dutch: lol (nl) Esperanto: mdr (eo) Finnish: lol (fi), naur, reps, :D (fi) French: mdr (fr), lol (fr), jrf (fr), ptdr (fr), cqcd (french canadian) Georgian: ლოლ (ka), lol (ka) German: reps (de), lol (de), lal (lachen heraus loud) Hebrew: לול (he) (lol) Hungarian: lol (hu), hfn (hu) (hangosan felnevet) Interlingua: lol (ia) Italian: lol (it), rm (it) (ridere molto), asd (it)

Japanese: w (ja), www (ja), ｗ (ja), ワラ (ja) (wara) Navajo: lol (ayóo íítsʼaʼgo anáshdloh) Norwegian: lol (no) Portuguese: rs (pt) Russian: lol, лол (lol), ржёт (ržot), Ы (y), ржунимагу (ržunimagu), испацтула (ispactúla) Spanish: reva (es) Swedish: lol (sv), asg (sv) (asgarva (sv)) Thai: 555 (th) (ห้าๆๆ (th) (hâa-hâa-hâa) Welsh: CAYU (cy)

Interjection

LOL

1. (Internet, Internet slang, text messaging, by dilution) Denotes light-heartedness or that the thing just said was not intended as serious

Verb

LOL (third-person singular simple present LOLs, present participle LOLing, simple past and past participle LOLed, LOLd or LOL'd)

1. To laugh out loud.

See also

• IPML
• lawl
• LMAO
• LOLWUT
• LOLZ
• lulz
• ROFL
• ROTFL
• ROFLMAO
• ROTFLMAO

References

• [1] UK house of commons discussing a Loyal Orange Lodge.