LOLn.1
/ˌɛləʊˈɛl/, U.S. /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/ Originally U.S.
An elderly woman.
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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]
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1960 H. Caen Only in San Francisco xi. 64 A traffic officer bellowed at an LOL who didn't seem to know which way to turn her car, ‘Use your noodle, lady, use your noodle!’
1974 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 27 July 28/3 How do you know my name?! accuses the L.O.L.
1980 A. Maupin More Tales of City 64 A Luxor cab deposited a passenger on the sidewalk. An LOL. And she was headed for the door of the Superman Building.
1994 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Food section) 8 It was a time when LOLs stopped with their blued hair, white gloves and proper handbags for sustenance while shopping.
2006 T. Cutler 211 Things Bright Boy can Do i. 25 LOLs are never in a hurry. Furthermore, every 30 seconds extra an LOL spends chatting to the checkout girl about Werther's Originals must be multiplied by the number of people behind her.
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LOLv.
/lɒl/, /ˌɛləʊˈɛl/, U.S. /lɑl/, /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/ Originally in the language of electronic communications.
intransitive. To laugh out loud; to be amused. Cf. LOL int.
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1997 Re: The linguistics of computer communication in sci.lang (Usenet newsgroups, accessed 17 Dec. 2019) 13 Oct. LOL (laughing out loud) becomes: ‘I lolled and lolled... I couldn't stop lolling’.
2011 Independent 13 Aug. 35/2 Oh how we LOLed at those Photoshopped memes.
2020 @FullBoyleBecky 7 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Jan. 2020) Bloody hell. I should not have lolled at this. But I did.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
LOLint.n.2
/lɒl/, /ˌɛləʊˈɛl/, U.S. /lɑl/, /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/ colloquial.
A. int.
Originally and chiefly in the language of electronic communications: ‘ha ha!’; used to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > ordinary representation of laughter [interjection] > others
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1989 FidoNews (Electronic text) 8 May LOL—Laughing Out Loud.
1993 Re: Walking out of Movies in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Aug. LOL... Damn, that's even worse... Ba Ha Ha Ha ha ha!
2002 What Mobile Apr. 23/3 (heading) Wan2 go on a d8 2nite? LOL. Everyone flirts, but will people really do it on their mobiles?
2003 K. Sampson Freshers 100 ‘Wow, man! Are you, like, really from a council estate?’ ‘Yep.’ ‘Lol! Awesome.’
2006 J. Dibbell Play Money xxiv. 170 There was a pause, then finally: lol. i know what ur hintin at.
B. n.2
An instance of the written interjection ‘LOL’.
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1993 San Diego Union-Tribune 14 Feb. d2/3 Someone who cracks a joke might get an ‘LOL’ in response—for ‘Laughing Out Loud’.
1995 RE: Polygonal shaped GIFs in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Aug. I got a LOL about ‘Geometrically challenged’.
2000 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Three Star ed.) d1 Last week.., 14-year-old Caitlin Orlofsky and her friends caught up on it all, in a conversation punctuated by LOLs.
2009 R. V. Kozinets Netnography x. 183 All of it blogged and microblogged and promoted with lots of omgs and lols.
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