LOL

or lol

[ el-oh-elor, often, lol ]

interjection

1. 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, LOL·ing.

1. 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

1. laughing out loud

Word History and Origins

Origin of LOL¹

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

Example Sentences

He reposted a video of the incident, captioned "lol".

From BBC

Let’s go through them in rough order of LOL/Oh God.

From Slate

They are made to be afraid that a whole lot of men think Tucker Carlson is lol hilarious for talking about the need to vote for Trump as tantamount to “spanking a bad little girl.”

From Slate

In an email sent after Mrs Yasharahyalah was asked if she had had another child, it said: "Let him locate him lol."

From BBC

Of the letters we received, a few said things like “I don’t want to tell you, b/c then it’ll get crowded. LOL!” and “I’ll keep it to myself. Don’t want the litter or the crowds.”

From Los Angeles Times