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From Encyclopedia Dramatica

This page is about the acronym. For information about Lol the LJ user, please see Lol (lj user)

Lol, the most abused abbreviation on the internet. But what does it mean? Usually one of these:

1. Laugh out loud, or laughing out loud.
2. By some: Lots of laughs. As a side note, those who think so are ghey.
3. Also used when you say something unfunny and everyone else pities you.
4. lulz, a corruption of lol.
5. Lots of love <3
6. Dutch word meaning 'fun'
7. Welsh word meaning 'fucking around'/being rowdy'
8. Love our Lord
9. I have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this conversation

Contents 1 Typesetting and Cross-language characteristics 2 Variations 2.1 IRLOL 2.2 Gallery of lol 2.3 Other variations 3 Related Articles

[edit] Typesetting and Cross-language characteristics

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Old English has a symbol for Lol:

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[edit] Variations

[edit] IRLOL

interj. (Acronym: in real life laughing out loud)

1: an exclamation used on the internet to express gaiety and to indicate that one has human laughed in real life, typically as a result of listening to funny jokes. (this term developed as a response to the CNN reports of lol fraud) [syn: IROFL]

n. (contraction of IRL and OL)

1: (irlol nervosa) a schizotypal disorder which causes confusion between realspace and hyperspace, resulting in either taking the internet too seriously or behaving in public as one would online (such as using acronyms like lol to describe their emotions).

There has been some debate as to who first coined this acronym but it was concluded that the phrase is not really that funny and, more importantly, no-one really cares. hep coined this phrase because she is a LOL-ita.

[edit] Gallery of lol

Lollerskates	Lmaonade	Rofljaculation	Roflcopter
LOLRUS	Lolbus	Lollercaust	Lolstika
Lmaonaise	Lmaowl	Steamloller	Lollercoaster
Lolcano	Lolland, the funniest place on earth

[edit] Other variations

• Lollerskates
• lawl
• Lollercaust
• Lollercoaster
• Lmaonade
• Lmaonaise
• Lmaowl
• Lmao Zedong
• Steamloller
• Loldongs
• Loler
• Lol dox.txt
• lolwtf

[edit] Related Articles

• Lulz
• Rofl
• Uncyclopedia (antonym)
• Lulbat
• And last but not least (in fact, possibly most), LOL WUT.

[LOL BRB] [WTFBBQ] 0 Lol is a part of a series on acronyms.

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