LOLCAT Definition & Meaning

LOLcat

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[ lol-kat ]

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noun

(on the internet) an image of a cat accompanied by misspelled or grammatically incorrect text that humorously represents the cat's imagined thoughts or comments on what the image is depicting.
an internet fad or meme typified by such an image.
the innovative spellings or language of LOLcat:
the rules of LOLcat.

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Origin of LOLcat¹

First recorded in 2005–10; LOL ( def ) + cat ( def )

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Example Sentences

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And while the Library of Congress owns a rare print copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the web archive features the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, which rendered the bible in LOLspeak.

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Among the many iterations is Ceiling Cat as God the Creator, speaking in the “lolcat” meme translation of the Bible: “At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.”

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Nowadays anything can become a meme, be it an idea, song or theory; a lolcat, distracted boyfriend or dancing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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On view will be Eva and Franco Mattes’s Ceiling Cat, a sculpture based on a lolcat meme where a taxidermy cat watches you from a ceiling.

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It first appeared in 2013, before the debut of the Gawker columnist “A dog” but after the rise of the Lolcat and the registration of the @ProBirdRights Twitter account, which is operated by a fictional bird.

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