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

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

Garten responded cheekily, saying, “To quote Reese Witherspoon, that sounds great but I'm probably not doing any of those things! LOL!!”

From Salon