What's (lol)?

Question

It sounds kinda cool and I'd like to use it but I don't know what I'd be saying.

Answer 1

LOL (also spelled lol) is an abbreviation for "laughing out loud", "laugh out loud", or less commonly "lots of laughter" or "lots of laughs". It has been alleged to stand for "laughing on line" or "laugh on line", although these are most likely backronyms. LOL is a common element of Internet slang used, historically, on Usenet.





Variations on the theme
For a list of words for Internet laughter slang, see the Internet laughter slang category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionaryThe widespread use of the term has sprung many variations such as pseudo-pluralizations (e.g. lols, lollers and lolz), repetitions (e.g. lololol and loooool), and puns (e.g. lollerskates, lolercopter, lolercakes, lolgasm, lollercoaster, lollerfest, lollerpops, lollercaust). Sometimes the Os are replaced with alternating or random zeroes, as a form of Leet (e.g. lo0o0ol).

Another use which is becoming increasingly widespread is using it to replace the word laugh in a phrase, such as It makes me lol or I lol at that. In fact, it can be used as nearly any part of speech: It is lol.

The word lol is also becoming used in everyday speech among instant messaging users, often sarcastically, saying "lol" to a joke instead of actually laughing at it. Some may just slip the word in randomly, much like an instant message conversation, during casual conversation.

Despite it being an English acronym, it is often used by non-English speakers as-is, even in other scripts (eg. Arabic: لول‎, Hebrew: לול).


Variants and translations in widespread use
Most of these abbreviations are usually found in lowercase. lal or lawl — can refer to either a pseudo-pronunciation of LOL, or the German translation (although most German speakers use 'LOL'). Saying lawl is sometimes meant in mockery of those who use the term LOL, and not meant as serious usage.

Lol (lollig) — a Dutch word, meaning joke or fun (lollig means funny)
MDR — French equivalent: Mort De Rire ('Dying of laughter')
ｗ — used commonly in 2channel
LMAO — stands for "Laughing My **** Off" or "Laughing My *** Off" and has several variations itself:
ROFL/ROTFL — Rolling On the Floor, Laughing. Roffle is now also a widely used variation of ROFL, along with its own variations (such as the popular ROFLcopter); and of course in any permutation, such as: ROFLMAO
lolz — occasionally used in place of "LOL"

See also
leet
List of Internet slang
noob
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Answer 2

To be a little more concise, it usually mean "I am right now 'laughing out loud,' " or it can mean "lots of luck," in whatever you just told the person that you were about to do. Most always, though, you must have said something that actually caused the person, you were writing, to really laugh openly and audibly, like "out loud," when usually he/she is only just amused as a rule. There you have it. Install it in your vocabulary because it is sure to be in the new dictionaries. Go for it!

Answer 3

It means Laugh Out Loud, but now its become more of a "filler" or when you have nothing else to say. People just use it randomly now, so i guess its meaning is lost. It has sort of been replaced with lmao which means laughing my *** off. Most people say lmao when something is actualy funny (which was the original meaning of lol).

Answer 4

Laugh Out Loud now you know you

Answer 5

it means your laughing

Laugh Out Loud or Laugh OnLine

Answer 6

laugh out loud

Answer 7

It means 'laugh out loud'

Answer 8

Where have you been.
It means laugh out loud.

Answer 9

lol is laugh out loud or lots of love

Answer 10

Laughing out loud
Lot's of laughs