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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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Origin of LOL¹

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

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Example Sentences

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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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“That’s how you pop out and show,” actor and comic B. Simone wrote in comments, while crip-walker Serena Williams added, “Oooooppp lol love this.”

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When Lol Crowley won for cinematography Stanton and his friends launched out of their seats, clearly elated.

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While this season’s precursor cinematography awards are rather evenly split between “The Brutalist,” “Nosferatu” and “Maria,” Lol Crawley’s work on “The Brutalist” has the stronger narrative going into Oscar night.

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