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LOL

Submitted by katayah on January 6, 2008 - 8:51am.

What question are you answering?:

lol

How is it used?:

Used on the Internet. Slang.

What does it mean?:

Most commonly: 'Laughing out loud'. Also: 'lots of love' or 'lots of luck'

How did it come to be used this way?:

Often used it could be inconvenient to be written in full, LOL is shorter and thus more useful.

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lol

Submitted by Visitor on August 27, 2007 - 12:56pm.

What question are you answering?:

lol

How is it used?:

"lol that's funny"

What does it mean?:

It means Laugh Out Loud

How did it come to be used this way?:

It's a short form which came about as people needed to find quick ways to type common phrases in chat sessions or more recently in text messages. Other common short forms include AFAIK (as far as I know) or OTOH which is 'on the other hand.'

Trivia/fun facts:

lol has been combined with other words to denote when someone is making fun of a particular group. 'lolxtians' for example is when someone is thought to be laughing out loud at Christian fundamentalists.