lolz

or lols

[ lolz ]

plural noun

1. amusement; fun; joking; laughter, laughs:

   It’s nonstop lolz with my sisters when we have a girls’ night out.

interjection

1. LOL:

   The dog just ate our last roll of toilet paper, lolz!

Word History and Origins

Origin of lolz¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; from LOL ( def ), an interjection reanalyzed as a noun and pluralized with -z (to match pronunciation)

Example Sentences

Even the most stalwart – your George Takeis, your Kathy Griffins, Yvette Nicole Browns, Jeffrey Wrights and other brave souls – are bound to be tested by Musk's "free speech absolutism," that crackpot term which amounts to flinging open Pandora's Box, mainly for the lolz.

From Salon

The page claims 18,000 attention-seeking goblins, likely seeing a place to blow off steam by triggering the libs, strictly for the lolz.

From Salon

And while he is definitely leaning into the LOLz, Montero also seriously sees “Montero,” his purposefully self-titled single—paired with a parenthetical allusion to Call Me by Your Name, the gay coming-of-age novel turned award-winning film—as an emblem of his uncloseted freedom.

From Slate

Hype on Reddit and other social-media sites also seems to be propelling Dogecoin to new heights, although in the case, it might be more for the lolz—and for making bank.

From Slate

One woman is described as having “not much lolz left in her eyes”; despair is all-pervasive.

From Washington Post