This article is about the internet slang.

For the video game

abbreviated as "LoL", see League of Legends. For other uses, see
LOL (disambiguation).
"Laugh out loud" redirects here. For the CBC Radio One radio show,
see Laugh Out Loud (radio). For the ABS-CBN television show, see
Laugh Out Loud (TV series).

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LOL or lol, an acronym for laugh(ing) out loud,[1][2][3] or lots of

laughs,[4][5][6] is a popular element of Internet slang. It was first used
almost exclusively on Usenet, but has since become widespread in
other forms of computer-mediated communication and even face-toface communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily
reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more
emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO[7] ("laugh(ing) my
ass off") and ROFL[8][9][10] (or its older form ROTFL;[11][12] "roll(ing) on the
floor laughing"). Other unrelated expansions include the now mostly

obsolete "lots of luck" or "lots of love" used in letter-writing.[13]

The list of acronyms "grows by the month"[9] and they are collected
along with emoticons and smileys into folk dictionaries that are
circulated informally amongst users of Usenet, IRC, and other forms
of (textual) computer-mediated communication.[14] These initialisms
are controversial, and several authors[15][16][17][18] recommend against
their use, either in general or in specific contexts such as business
communications.