laughing out loud;laugh out loud:used as a response to something funny or as a follow-up to something said only as a joke: You can see from the pics that my dog did not appreciate how we dressed him up for Halloween this year. LOL!
verb (used without object)LOLed,LOL·ing.
to laugh: I literally LOLed when I got your text.I can’t stop loling over this dumb video!
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Origin of LOL
First recorded in 1985–90; from its use in digital communications
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