LOL

See also: lol, Lol, LoL, and -lol

English

Alternative forms

• (laughing out loud) lol, lawl
• (lots of laughs) lols, LOLS
• (light-heartedness) lolsies, LOLsies, lolzies
• (?) lulz

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛl.əuˈɛl/, /lɔːl/, /lɒl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛl.oʊˈɛl/, /lɔl/, /lɑl/, /loʊl/, /lol/

Interjection

LOL

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Laughing (or laugh) out loud.
2. (Internet slang, text messaging) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
3. (Internet slang, text messaging, by dilution) Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious.
4. (letter-writing) Lots of love. (now dated)

Translations

expression of laughter

• Arabic: هَهَه‏‎ (hahah), خُخُخ‏‎ (ḵuḵuḵ), هَاهَا‏‎ (hāhā), لُول‏‎ (lūl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 233, 大聲笑, 大声笑 (dàshēngxiào)

• Dutch: lol (nl), LOL
• Esperanto: mdr
• Finnish: lol (fi), naur, reps (fi),
• French: mdr (fr), lol (fr), ptdr (fr), cqcd (Canada)
• Georgian: ლოლ (lol), lol (lol)
• German: reps, lol (de), (lachen heraus loud) lal
• Hebrew: לול‏‎ (he) (lol), ההה‏‎, חחח‏‎ (he)
• Hungarian: lol, hfn (hangosan felnevet)
• Indonesian: wkwkwk
• Interlingua: lol
• Irish: GOA
• Italian: lol

• Japanese: w (ja), www, ワラ (wara), （笑） (ja) (わらい, warai, しょう, shō, わら, wara, かっこ わらい, kakkowarai, かっこ しょう, kakkoshō, かっこ わら, kakkowara), 草 (ja) (kusa)
• Korean: ㅋㅋ (ko) (kk), ㅋ (ko) (k), ㅎㅎ (hh)
• Latin: corrideō
• Navajo: dloh, ayóo íítsʼaʼgo anáshdloh, AIA, dagó anáshdlohgo shitłʼaaʼ nʼdiiltsʼid
• Norwegian: lol
• Polish: lol (pl)
• Portuguese: rs (pt)
• Romanian: lol
• Russian: лол (ru) (lol), ржёт (ru) (ržot) , Ы (ru) (Y), ржунимагу́ (ržunimagú) , испацту́ла (ispactúla) , пацтало́м (pactalóm) (most expressions are in "padonki" style, deliberately distorted spellings)
• Spanish: lol, reva, jajajá
• Swedish: lol (sv), asg (sv) (asgarva (sv))
• Tagalog: jejeje
• Thai: 555 (th) (555) (ห้าๆๆ (th) (hâa-hâa-hâa)
• Welsh: CAYU

denotes light-heartedness or unseriousness

• Czech: lol

• Lojban: zo'o

Verb

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

1. To laugh out loud.

Noun

LOL (plural LOLs)

1. (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.
2. (informal, sometimes pejorative) little old lady

See also

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

References

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

Anagrams

• LLO, OLL

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Portuguese

Interjection

LOL

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) LOL

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:LOL.